Sandboxie 5.49.7 - Denial of Service
Priority MEDIUM 54CWE-1284Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Active
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Sandboxie 5.49.7 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by overflowing the container folder input field. Attackers can paste a large buffer of repeated characters into the Sandbox container folder setting to trigger an application crash.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0037 31st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sandboxie-plus | Sandboxie | 5.49.7 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- Sandboxie Vendorsandboxie-plus Affected 5.49.7 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1
Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:sandboxie-plus:sandboxie:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | sandboxie-plus |
- cpe:2.3:a:sandboxie-plus:sandboxie:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·sandboxie-plus
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-47831
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-j52p-j9xv-w569
References
Exploit 1
Other 1
More sandboxie-plus vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-40067 Sandboxie's Integer Overflow in SbieIniServer::RC4Crypt allows sandbox escape and SYSTEM compromise CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2026-26723 Sandboxie-Plus privilege escalation via INI CRLF injection bypassing EditAdminOnly CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2024-32948 Path traversal in Sandboxie CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.2
- TI-2026-26724 Sandboxie-Plus sandbox escape via uninitialized memory leak and stack overflow in GetRawInputDeviceInfoSlave CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2021-22497 Sandboxie Plus v0.7.2 - 'SbieSvc' Unquoted Service Path CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5
- TI-2026-33112 Sandboxie-Plus: Sandboxie APC Injection Sandbox Escape CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7
Sources
- CVE-2021-47831 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-47831 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-j52p-j9xv-w569 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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