# CVE-2024-45833: Mobile password gets saved in dictionary under conditions

> Attackers can recover passwords from the keyboard dictionary if specific mobile settings are enabled, exposing user credentials.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fq8w-cfr6-8fqg

## What is CVE-2024-45833?

CVE-2024-45833 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mattermost, published on 16 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Mattermost Mobile Apps versions <=2.18.0 fail to disable autocomplete during login while typing the password and visible password is selected, which allows the password to get saved in the dictionary when the user has Swiftkey as the default keyboard, the masking is off and the password contains a special character..

Weakness: CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45833?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Mattermost Mattermost Mobile.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-45833?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-45833 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-45833 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45833 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Mattermost

- [CVE-2019-20848](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-20848/): Other in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2019-20852](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-20852/): Information disclosure in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2020-14449](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14449/): Information disclosure in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2020-14451](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14451/): Information disclosure in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2025-1558](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1558/): Denial of Service Via Malicious GIF (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-45833 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-45833 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mattermost, published on 16 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45833 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Mattermost. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45833/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45833/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45833
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45833
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-45833

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45833/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.