Sandboxie-Plus sandbox escape via uninitialized memory leak and stack overflow in GetRawInputDeviceInfoSlave
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-121 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
Sandboxie-Plus is an open source sandbox-based isolation software for Windows. In versions 1.17.2 and earlier, the SbieSvc proxy service's GetRawInputDeviceInfoSlave handler contains two vulnerabilities that can be chained for sandbox escape. First, when a sandboxed process sends an IPC request with cbSize set to 0, up to 32KB of uninitialized stack memory from the service process is returned, leaking return addresses and stack cookies which bypass ASLR and /GS protections. Second, the handler performs a memcpy with an attacker-controlled length without verifying it fits within the 32KB stack buffer, enabling a stack buffer overflow. By chaining the information leak with the overflow, a sandboxed process can execute a ROP chain to achieve SYSTEM privilege escalation, even from a Security Hardened Sandbox. Hardware-enforced shadow stacks (Intel CET) prevent the ROP chain execution but do not mitigate the information leak. This issue has been fixed in version 1.17.3.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
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 | before 1.17.3 | 1.17.3 | Patch available | CNA |
- Sandboxie Vendorsandboxie-plus Affected before 1.17.3 Fixed in 1.17.3 Patch available CNA
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:sandboxie-plus:sandboxie:*:*:*:*:plus:*:*:* | before 1.17.3 | Vulnerable | sandboxie-plus |
- cpe:2.3:a:sandboxie-plus:sandboxie:*:*:*:*:plus:*:*:* Versions before 1.17.3 Vulnerable ·sandboxie-plus
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Sandboxie (sandboxie-plus) Fixed in 1.17.3
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-34459
References
More sandboxie-plus Sandboxie 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-2026-25112 Sandboxie kernel driver denial of service via malformed IOCTL from sandboxed process CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2025-29386 Sandboxie Arbitrary Kernel Write in SbieDrv.sys API (API_GET_SECURE_PARAM) CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2025-29385 Sandboxie has Pool Buffer Overflow in SbieDrv.sys API (API_GET_SECURE_PARAM) CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
Sources
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