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CVE-2026-4387lowCWE-312CWE-522

Unencrypted storage of authentication state in StrongDM Desktop Application state.kv file

8Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 2epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 97% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
StrongDM Desktop Application before 23.74.0 (Desktop Client before 53.77.0) on Microsoft Windows stores authentication state, including a JSON Web Token and asymmetric key material, in cleartext in a per-user state file located at C:\Users\<username>\.sdm\state.kv. The file is protected only by default user-level NTFS permissions. Exploitation requires local read access to the affected user's profile directory and additional deployment and execution conditions on the target host. The condition was reported through coordinated disclosure by Hope Walker (SpecterOps).
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L