{"id":79035,"date":"2026-05-29T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-4387-unencrypted-storage-of-authentication-state-in-strongdm-desktop-application-state-kv-file\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:16:30","slug":"cve-2026-4387-unencrypted-storage-of-authentication-state-in-strongdm-desktop-application-state-kv-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-4387-unencrypted-storage-of-authentication-state-in-strongdm-desktop-application-state-kv-file\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-4387 &#8211; Unencrypted storage of authentication state in StrongDM Desktop Application state.kv file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-4387<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 29, 2026, 8:16 p.m. | 15\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :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\\.sdmstate.kv. The file is protected only by default user-level NTFS permissions.<\/p>\n<p>Exploitation requires local read access to the affected user&#8217;s profile directory and additional deployment and execution conditions on the target host.<\/p>\n<p>The condition was reported through coordinated disclosure by Hope Walker (SpecterOps).<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 2.0 | LOW<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-4387 Published : May 29, 2026, 8:16 p.m. | 15\u00a0minutes ago Description :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\\.sdmstate.kv. The file is protected only by default &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}