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Android App: Clear clipboard function does not actually clear clipboard.
Steps To Reproduce
On the Android mobile app if you:
- click on settings
- scroll to OTHER -> OPTIONS
- set the CLEAR CLIPBOARD setting to something like 10 sec.
- navigate to a stored password and copy the password
- wait the amount of time needed to have the clipboard automatically cleared.
- notice that you now cannot paste anything in your clipboard
- navigate to your messages
- touch and hold a text entry field and tap the clipboard button that appears.
- There you will see your previously copied password still in your clipboard.
Expected Result
I would appreciate the clear clipboard function to completely clear the password from my clipboard and remove the possibility of me accidentally texting someone my password while trying to paste in another copied text.
Actual Result
I copy a password from the mobile app and after the app has cleared the clipboard I go to text someone and copy and paste something to text them and almost pasted in my sensitive password while scanning through my clipboard history.
Screenshots or Videos
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Additional Context
It seems like only the first item in the clipboard is deleted but all the previous passwords that i had copied for weeks were still there and I was relying on the clear clipboard function to have cleared it. Now, I do not know if this clipboard history could even be potentially accessed by a malicious actor that had gained access to an android device, but this seemed like a security risk. I am open to being informed about whether this is a concern or not.
Thank you all for contributing to this awesome app. As soon as I have developed my coding skills further this is a project that I would love to contribute to.
Cheers
Operating System
Android
Operating System Version
Android Version 12
Device
Galaxy A32 5G
Build Version
2022.8.0(4911)
Beta
- [ ] Using a pre-release version of the application.
Hi @apmech707 , thank you for raising this issue. The team will try and reproduce this, and upon a successful one we'd make time and resolve this. We will get back to you if we need any additional information. Thanks!
oh this has been this way for years. I see this as a Galaxy bug, tho. Galaxy has like 20-30 clipboard slots, and thus no program is able of clearing them. I will say that I developed a workaround: I used (trying to remember here.... ) MacroDroid?, and created a macro that every X minutes it would push data to the clipboard and repeat 30x, thus filling the clipboard with dummy data. I was never able to get the macro program to clear data from the clipboard, but I could push data there, reaching the same desired endpoint -- my password info was wiped.
I hope this helps a little :)
Hi thank you for contacting me and offering a solution. This does sound like an android problem rather than a bug in butwarden. I really appreciate you looking into it. Thanks so much, hope that i can contribute to this project as I get better at coding. Have a good one
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 7:05 AM THEOCKID @.***> wrote:
oh this has been this way for years. I see this as a Galaxy bug, tho. Galaxy has like 20-30 clipboard slots, and thus no program is able of clearing them. I will say that I developed a workaround: I used (trying to remember here.... ) MacroDroid?, and created a macro that every X minutes it would push data to the clipboard and repeat 30x, thus filling the clipboard with dummy data. I was never able to get the macro program to clear data from the clipboard, but I could push data there, reaching the same desired endpoint -- my password info was wiped.
I hope this helps a little :)
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The source of the problem may be on the android side, but the issue still stands, the clearing of clipboard doesn't work. If the functionality can't be supported, for whatever reason, then it needs to clearly explain to the user that the current OS doesn't support that and the functionality is disabled.
Do not lose trust over something that isn't even your fault.
Hey @ThrashAbaddon thanks for the information, the team is reviewing this one.
It may be a good idea to close this issue in favor of https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/issues/2356, since they are the same. Although this bug report was opened first, 2356 has detailed information on why the bug occurs and is likely to be more up-to-date in general.
Hi @apmech707 , thank you for raising this issue. The team will try and reproduce this, and upon a successful one we'd make time and resolve this. We will get back to you if we need any additional information. Thanks!
oh this has been this way for years. I see this as a Galaxy bug, tho. Galaxy has like 20-30 clipboard slots, and thus no program is able of clearing them. I will say that I developed a workaround: I used (trying to remember here.... ) MacroDroid?, and created a macro that every X minutes it would push data to the clipboard and repeat 30x, thus filling the clipboard with dummy data. I was never able to get the macro program to clear data from the clipboard, but I could push data there, reaching the same desired endpoint -- my password info was wiped.
I hope this helps a little :)
Hi thank you for contacting me and offering a solution. This does sound like an android problem rather than a bug in butwarden. I really appreciate you looking into it. Thanks so much, hope that i can contribute to this project as I get better at coding. Have a good one
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 7:05 AM THEOCKID @.***> wrote:
oh this has been this way for years. I see this as a Galaxy bug, tho. Galaxy has like 20-30 clipboard slots, and thus no program is able of clearing them. I will say that I developed a workaround: I used (trying to remember here.... ) MacroDroid?, and created a macro that every X minutes it would push data to the clipboard and repeat 30x, thus filling the clipboard with dummy data. I was never able to get the macro program to clear data from the clipboard, but I could push data there, reaching the same desired endpoint -- my password info was wiped.
I hope this helps a little :)
— Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/issues/2067#issuecomment-1256976716, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AN6THO3IDROWKOC6RWOX5ELV74DCDANCNFSM6AAAAAAQKBP5WA . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: @.***>
The source of the problem may be on the android side, but the issue still stands, the clearing of clipboard doesn't work. If the functionality can't be supported, for whatever reason, then it needs to clearly explain to the user that the current OS doesn't support that and the functionality is disabled.
Do not lose trust over something that isn't even your fault.
Hey @ThrashAbaddon thanks for the information, the team is reviewing this one.
It may be a good idea to close this issue in favor of https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/issues/2356, since they are the same. Although this bug report was opened first, 2356 has detailed information on why the bug occurs and is likely to be more up-to-date in general.
