CVE-2010-5196: Keepass Password Safe

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in KeePass Password Safe before 2.13 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DwmApi.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .kdbx file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

  • Keepass Password Safe: up to and including 2.10; version 1.6 only

Published 2012-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.