CVE-2026-34461

HIGH

Sandboxie-Plus SbieIniServer RunSbieCtrl stack buffer overflow allows local privilege escalation

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Sandboxie-Plus is an open source sandbox-based isolation software for Windows. In versions 1.17.2 and earlier, the SbieIniServer RunSbieCtrl handler contains a stack buffer overflow. The MSGID_SBIE_INI_RUN_SBIE_CTRL message is handled before normal sandbox and impersonation checks, and for non-sandboxed callers, the handler copies the trailing message payload into a fixed-size WCHAR ctrlCmd[128] stack buffer using memcpy without verifying the length fits within the buffer. The service pipe is created with a NULL DACL, allowing any local interactive process to connect and send an oversized payload to overflow the stack. This can lead to a crash of the SbieSvc service or potential code execution as SYSTEM. This issue has been fixed in version 1.17.3.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 0.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-121
Status published
Products (2)
sandboxie-plus/sandboxie < 1.17.3
sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie < 1.17.3
Published May 05, 2026
Tracked Since May 06, 2026