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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-14 | Published 2026-01-16 | Updated 2026-01-16 | Assigner VulnCheck




MEDIUM: 4.6CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

Product status

5.49.7
affected

Credits

Erick Galindo finder

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49844 exploit

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49844 (ExploitDB-49844) exploit

sandboxie-plus.com/ (Sandboxie Official Homepage) product

www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sandboxie-denial-of-service (VulnCheck Advisory: Sandboxie 5.49.7 - Denial of Service) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2021-47831)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2021-47831)

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