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Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

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Re: Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

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KeePass users continue to live the stress free live. I've managed to avoid several security breaches in last 5 years alone by using KeePass locally on my own infra.

Which is great for Hacker News users that can maintain their own infra. But if we're talking "stress free", that's not an answer for the average user...

Re: Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

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post #26
post #20

KeePass users continue to live the stress free live. I've managed to avoid several security breaches in last 5 years alone by using KeePass locally on my own infra.

I need my passwords to be accessible from my infrastructure and my phone. How do you achieve this with KeePass? I assumed it was not possible, but in fairness, I haven't really gone down that rabbit hole to investigate.

For me it is nextcloud + wireguard

Re: Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

#43
post #15

Never used the CLI, but I do use their browser plugin. Would be quite a mess if that got compromised. What can I do to prevent it? Run old --tried and tested-- versions? Quite bizarre to think much much of my well-being depends on those secrets staying secret.

Integration points increase the risk of compromise. For that reason, I never use the desktop browser extensions for my password manager. When password managers were starting to become popular there was one that had security issues with the browser integration so I decided to just avoid those entirely. On iOS, I'm more comfortable with the integration so I use it, but I'm wary of it.

Re: Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

#44

> Russian locale kill switch: Exits silently if system locale begins with "ru", checking Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().locale and environment variables LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANGUAGE, and LANG So bold and so cowards at the same time...

That isn't a smoking gun. I think it was the Vault7 leaks which showed that the NSA and CIA deliberately leave trails like this to obfuscate which nation state did it. I'm sure other state actors do this as well, and it's not a particularly "crazy" technique.

Re: Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

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post #20

KeePass users continue to live the stress free live. I've managed to avoid several security breaches in last 5 years alone by using KeePass locally on my own infra.

> KeePass users continue to live the stress free live.

https://cyberpress.org/hackers-exploit-keepass-password-mana...

Re: Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

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I recently had to disable their Chrome extension because it made the browser grind to a halt (spammed mojo IPC messages to the main thread according to a profiler). I wasn't the only one affected, going by the recent extension reviews. I wonder if it's related.

Re: Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

#47
post #7

I had a really bad experience with the bitwarden cli. I believe it was `bw list` that I ran, assuming it would list the names of all my passwords, but too my surprise, it listed everything, including passwords and current totp codes. That's not the worst of it though. For some reason, when I ssh'ed into one of my servers and opened tmux, where I keep a weechat irc client running, I noticed that the entire content of…

I thought that CLI would be efficent when I looked for using it and then I figured it is JavaScript

Re: Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

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post #43
post #15

Never used the CLI, but I do use their browser plugin. Would be quite a mess if that got compromised. What can I do to prevent it? Run old --tried and tested-- versions? Quite bizarre to think much much of my well-being depends on those secrets staying secret.

Integration points increase the risk of compromise. For that reason, I never use the desktop browser extensions for my password manager. When password managers were starting to become popular there was one that had security issues with the browser integration so I decided to just avoid those entirely. On iOS, I'm more comfortable with the integration so I use it, but I'm wary of it.

The problem is that the UX with a browser extension is so much better.
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