bitwarden CVE Vulnerabilities & Metrics

Focus on bitwarden vulnerabilities and metrics.

Last updated: 12 May 2026, 22:25 UTC

About bitwarden Security Exposure

This page consolidates all known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) associated with bitwarden. We track both calendar-based metrics (using fixed periods) and rolling metrics (using gliding windows) to give you a comprehensive view of security trends and risk evolution. Use these insights to assess risk and plan your patching strategy.

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Global CVE Overview

Total bitwarden CVEs: 7
Earliest CVE date: 12 Dec 2019, 19:15 UTC
Latest CVE date: 01 May 2026, 05:16 UTC

Latest CVE reference: CVE-2026-42994

Rolling Stats

30-day Count (Rolling): 1
365-day Count (Rolling): 1

Calendar-based Variation

Calendar-based Variation compares a fixed calendar period (e.g., this month versus the same month last year), while Rolling Growth Rate uses a continuous window (e.g., last 30 days versus the previous 30 days) to capture trends independent of calendar boundaries.

Variations & Growth

Month Variation (Calendar): 0%
Year Variation (Calendar): 0%

Month Growth Rate (30-day Rolling): 0.0%
Year Growth Rate (365-day Rolling): 0.0%

Monthly CVE Trends (current vs previous Year)

Annual CVE Trends (Last 20 Years)

Critical bitwarden CVEs (CVSS ≥ 9) Over 20 Years

CVSS Stats

Average CVSS: 1.43

Max CVSS: 5.0

Critical CVEs (≥9): 0

CVSS Range vs. Count

Range Count
0.0-3.9 5
4.0-6.9 2
7.0-8.9 0
9.0-10.0 0

CVSS Distribution Chart

Top 5 Highest CVSS bitwarden CVEs

These are the five CVEs with the highest CVSS scores for bitwarden, sorted by severity first and recency.

All CVEs for bitwarden

CVE-2026-42994 bitwarden vulnerability CVSS: 0 01 May 2026, 05:16 UTC

Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 from 2026-04-22T21:57Z to 2026-04-22T23:30Z, when obtained from npm, had embedded malicious code. This is related to a Checkmarx supply chain incident.

CVE-2023-38840 bitwarden vulnerability CVSS: 0 15 Aug 2023, 17:15 UTC

Bitwarden Desktop 2023.7.0 and below allows an attacker with local access to obtain sensitive information via the Bitwarden.exe process.

CVE-2023-27706 bitwarden vulnerability CVSS: 0 09 Jun 2023, 19:15 UTC

Bitwarden Windows desktop application versions prior to v2023.4.0 store biometric keys in Windows Credential Manager, accessible to other local unprivileged processes.

CVE-2023-27974 bitwarden vulnerability CVSS: 0 09 Mar 2023, 00:15 UTC

Bitwarden through 2023.2.1 offers password auto-fill when the second-level domain matches, e.g., a password stored for an example.com hosting provider when customer-website.example.com is visited. NOTE: the vendor's position is that "Auto-fill on page load" is not enabled by default.

CVE-2018-25081 bitwarden vulnerability CVSS: 0 09 Mar 2023, 00:15 UTC

Bitwarden through 2023.2.1 offers password auto-fill within a cross-domain IFRAME element. NOTE: the vendor's position is that there have been important legitimate cross-domain configurations (e.g., an apple.com IFRAME element on the icloud.com website) and that "Auto-fill on page load" is not enabled by default.

CVE-2020-15879 bitwarden vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 21 Jul 2020, 17:15 UTC

Bitwarden Server 1.35.1 allows SSRF because it does not consider certain IPv6 addresses (ones beginning with fc, fd, fe, or ff, and the :: address) and certain IPv4 addresses (0.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, and 169.254.0.0/16).

CVE-2019-19766 bitwarden vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 12 Dec 2019, 19:15 UTC

The Bitwarden server through 1.32.0 has a potentially unwanted KDF.