Windows 10 victim of a bug that can close the open session in your favorite application or even forget your password

Windows 10 seems to be destined to live with bugs and errors in almost all the updates that are being released by Microsoft. With such repetitive affectations that it can become tiresome to enumerate them, the Redmond operating system is once again the prey of a new bug

This time an error, a failure, that affects the use of passwords in Windows 10 and that can put at risk the use of applications that use DPAPI (data protection API), a system designed to protect usage keys created and stored by the user through the Windows Credential Manager

Windows Credentials Manager

And maybe if we say DPAPI (data protection API), the term doesn't tell you much. But if we see how this system is the used by applications that protect the keys and passwords that we store, the matter becomes darker.

Just think of them as essential applications for many like Google Chrome, they feed on it to avoid having to enter passwords repeatedlyNow, with this bug, the system can prevent access or even close the session of that website that we visit so much.

This time around, and as featured in Windows Latest, it appears that one of the recent cumulative updates to Windows 10 causes Windows Credential Manager to forget stored passwordsfor applications that require it.Chrome is an example, but let's think about other services like Acrobat, Outlook, Edge, Drive…

In fact, some Windows 10 user community forums and websites already have threads in which those affected detail their cases :

For now the only clear thing is that Microsoft is already aware of the problem and is investigating which build may have triggered the failure. Indications point to the one with patch KB4565351 via builds 18362, 1016 and 18363, 1016, but for now it's not clear.

Hopefully when you get to the bottom of it, Microsoft will offer a new solution in the form of a patch that fixes this annoying bug that It can cause more than one headache.

Via | Windows Latest