Kaspersky Password Manager prior 24.0.0.427 on Windows KPM Extension for Chrome cleartext storage in memory

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Kaspersky Password Manager on Windows. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component KPM Extension for Chrome. The manipulation leads to cleartext storage in memory. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-23349. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Kaspersky Password Manager on Windows. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component KPM Extension for Chrome. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cleartext storage in memory vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-316. The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in memory. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Kaspersky has fixed a security issue in Kaspersky Password Manager (KPM) for Windows that allowed a local user to recover the auto-filled credentials from a memory dump when the KPM extension for Google Chrome is used. To exploit the issue, an attacker must trick a user into visiting a login form of a website with the saved credentials, and the KPM extension must autofill these credentials. The attacker must then launch a malware module to steal those specific credentials.

The weakness was presented by Efstratios Chatzoglou. The advisory is shared at support.kaspersky.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-23349 since 01/11/2023. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1555 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 24.0.0.427 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Kaspersky

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• Password Manager

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.kaspersky.com/

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