Re: Re: CVE request for keepassx password database export

[Reinhard Tartler <siretart () gmail com>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:04 PM,  <cve-assign () mitre org> wrote:
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> > it seems that keepassx 0.4.3 export function are a bit buggy. Starting an
> > export (using File / Export to / KeepassX XML file) and cancelling it leads to
> > KeepassX saving a cleartext XML file in ~/.xml without any warning.
> >
> > This was reported privately to the Debian security team today, but it was
> > actually reported publicly earlier in the Debian BTS. Unfortunately the
> > maintainer didn't acknowledge the bug or forwarded it upstream, apparently.
> >
> > It's not a terrible bug per se because leaking a user password file on purpose
> > would still require a lot of social engineering skills, but it still look like
> > it should get a CVE (an user explicitly cancelling the export surely doesn't
> > expect its passwords to be there in a hidden file.
>
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=791858
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> > > canceling export operation creates cleartext copy of all of the user's
> > > KeePassX password database entries
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> > > with Debian's default umask, the file is even world-readable in
> > > multiuser machines
>
> Use CVE-2015-8378.


http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/keepassx.git/commit/?id=b3c9028db8ec3b8752ff47717ffc792d755c1294
should fix the issue.

Felix, I've imported the package from bzr to git and put it to
collab-maint. I have not checked whether this issue also affects the
2.0 branch. Maybe this issue would make a good case for a 0.4.4
release?

Best,
Reinhard