Vault Health Reports

Vault health reports can help you evaluate the security of your Bitwarden individual or organization vault. Reports, such as the Reused Passwords and Weak Passwords report, are run locally on your client. This allows offending items to be identified, without Bitwarden ever having access to unencrypted versions of this data.

[!NOTE] health report Most vault health reports are only available for premium users, including members of paid organizations (families, teams, or enterprise), but the Data Breach report is free for all users.

View a report

Individual vault reports scan items saved to your personal vault, as well as organization items that you have access to. Organization reports will scan items across your organization's collections and are accessible to owners and admins from the Admin Console.

[!TIP] Health reports in browser You can also view the exposed, weak, and reused passwords health reports in the browser extension.

Run an individual vault report

Log in to the web app and select Reportsfrom the left navigation. Then, select a report to run:

Reports page Reports page

Run an organization vault report

Access organization vault reports from the Admin Console:

  1. Log in to the Bitwarden web app and open the Admin Console:

Product switcher Product switcher 2. Navigate to Reporting → Reports. 3. Select a report to run:

Organization reports *Organization reports *

Available reports

The following reports are available from the Reportspage of your individual vault, or the Reporting → Reports page of the Admin console.

Exposed Passwords

The Exposed Passwords report will identify passwords that have been uncovered in known data breaches that were released publicly or sold on the dark web by hackers.

This report uses a trusted web service to search the first five digits of the hash of all your passwords in a database of known leaked passwords. The returned matching list of hashes is then locally compared with the full hash of your passwords. That comparison is only done locally to preserve your k-anonymity.

[!NOTE] five digit password hash Why use the first five digits of password hashes?

If the report was performed with your actual passwords, it doesn't matter if they were exposed or not; you would be voluntarily leaking it to the service. This report’s result may not mean your account has been compromised, rather that you are using a password that has been found in these databases of exposed passwords. Nevertheless, we highly recommend not using leaked and non-unique passwords.

Once identified, you should create a new password for affected accounts or services.

Reused Passwords

The Reused Passwords report identifies non-unique passwords in your vault. Reusing the same password for multiple services can allow hackers to easily gain access to more of your online accounts when one service is breached.

Once identified, you should create a unique password for affected accounts or services.

Weak Passwords

The Weak Passwords report identifies weak passwords that can easily be guessed by hackers and automated tools that are used to crack passwords, sorted by severity of the weakness. This report uses zxcvbn for password strength analysis.

Once identified, you should use the Bitwarden password generator to create a strong password for offending accounts or services.

Unsecured Websites

The Unsecured Websites report identifies login items that use unsecured (http://) schemes in URIs. It's much safer to use https:// to encrypt communications with TLS/SSL. To learn more, see using URIs.

Once identified, you should change offending URIs from http:// to https://.

Inactive 2FA

The Inactive 2FA report identifies login items where:

  • Two-factor authentication (2FA) via TOTP is available from the service
  • You have not stored a TOTP authenticator key

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is an important security step that helps secure your accounts. If any website offers it, you should always enable 2FA. Offending items are identified by cross-referencing URI-data with data from https://2fa.directory/.

Once identified, set up 2FA using the Instructions hyperlink for each offending item:

Report Instructions Report Instructions

Member Access

The Member access report shows the total number of Groups, Collections, and Items each user can access:

Member access report Member access report

To locate a specific person, enter their email into the Search members field. Select the neighboring [sign-in] Export icon to download a .csv that details per member:

  • Basic account details, including their Name and if Two-Step Login or Account Recovery is turned on
  • Their Group assignments
  • Which Collections they can access and at what Collection Permissions level
  • The sum Total Items that the member can access

[!TIP] Member list export You can also download a ..csv list of members that includes account-specific details, like whether Secrets Manager is activated and their status in the organization.

Data Breach (individual vaults only)

The Data Breach report identifies compromised data (email addresses, passwords, credit cards, date of birth, and more) in known breaches, using a service called Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

When you create a Bitwarden account, you'll have the option to run this report on your master password before deciding to use it. To run this report, the first five digits of a hash of your master password is sent to HIBP and compared to stored exposed hashes. Your master password itself is never exposed by Bitwarden.

A “breach” is defined by HIBP as "an incident where data is inadvertently exposed in a vulnerable system, usually due to insufficient access controls or security weaknesses in the software". For more information, refer to HIBP's FAQs documentation.

[!NOTE] Self-hosting reports If you are self-hosting Bitwarden, in order to run the data breach report in your instance you will need to buy a Have I Been Pwned subscription key that will authorize you to make calls to the API, obtained here.

Once you have the key, open your ./bwdata/env/global.override.env and REPLACE the placeholders value for globalSettings__hibpApiKey with your purchased API key:

globalSettings__hibpApiKey=REPLACE

For more information, see configure environment variables.