Issue in KeePassXC 2.7.7 allows an attacker (who has the privileges of the victim) to recover some passwords stored in the .kdbx database via a memory dump. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because memory-management constraints make this unavoidable in the current design and other realistic designs.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-33901 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 19.49%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-03-18 | 21.79% | 19.49% | -2.29% |
| 2 | 2026-01-02 | 19.81% | 21.79% | +1.98% |
| 3 | 2025-11-21 | — | 19.81% | — |
Full EPSS history (19 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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2.8 | 3.6 | 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2024-33901 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (keepassxc), 6 status rows across 6 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, mantic, noble, upstream): not-affected 4, ignored 1, needs-triage 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-33901 |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://gist.github.com/Fastor01/30c6d89c842feb1865ec2cd2d3806838 | Exploit |
| https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10784 | Issue Tracking |
| https://keepassxc.org/blog/ | Release Notes |
| https://keepassxc.org/blog/2019-02-21-memory-security/ | Product |