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Disable Automatic Auto-Fill of Passwords

Share KeePass Passwords with your Team of multiple users

Many modern browsers/browser plugins have features to automatically fill-in user passwords without user involvement, saving them in the browser or in the cloud. From a security standpoint we recommend disabling these types of features in your environment.

Automatic Auto-fill can retrieve and inputs passwords without any human interaction (i.e. a human first initiating the action and selecting the target field).

In its place we would recommend using Auto-Type, which can be used with the MacOS client and KeePass for Pleasant Password Server. Auto Type requires user input to place credentials in a field, rather then doing so automatically in a field which may be compromised or spoofed.

Associated Risk Factors

The potential security concerns with enabling Automatic Auto-Fill are:

  • Secure credential values may be stored in cloud environments,
    • This expands the surface area of possible attacks.
    • The security of these storage areas is unknown. They may be less secure than your organization would permit internally.
  • Recovery tools can draw out browser stored passwords
  • A browser script may be tricked into inserting the stored information into an incorrect location (ie. spoofing).
  • Third-party scripts from advertisers, webpages, etc. could pick up and exploit user information (ie. man in the middle)
    • If they have been provided access to execute on the same domain, your organization's own webpages on your own domain, other webpages with various other domain
  • Some browser applications identify and offer to store any password-like details. Storing secure personal and employee data in the same directory may violate your jurisdiction's privacy laws. 

 

Mitigating Auto-Fill Password Risks

Possible methods of reducing risk to your organization:

Consider locking down browser settings & plugins for your organization:

 

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