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Security advisory
Bitwarden Desktop 2023.7.0 and below allows an attacker with local access to obtain sensitive information via the Bitwarden.exe process.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-38840
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 04:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Bitwarden Desktop 2023.7.0 and below allows an attacker with local access to obtain sensitive information via the Bitwarden.exe process.
osv:CVE-2023-38840
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:46.382705748Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/38xxx/CVE-2023-38840.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38840",
"https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/476",
"https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/pull/5813",
"https://github.com/markuta/bw-dump",
"https://redmaple.tech/blogs/2023/extract-bitwarden-vault-passwords/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2023-08-15T00:00:00+00:00"
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