CVE-2023-27706 Information

Description

Bitwarden Desktop v1.20.0 and above stores the biometric key in plaintext which allows a local attacker to decrypt the entire local vault.

Reference

https://github.com/bitwarden/clients https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/blob/8b5a223ad4ca0f89b6c9bcdbddef464d1755d2c0/apps/desktop/desktop_native/src/password/windows.rs#L16 https://hackerone.com/reports/1874155 https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/blob/8b5a223ad4ca0f89b6c9bcdbddef464d1755d2c0/apps/desktop/desktop_native/src/biometric/windows.rs#L19