CVE-2026-34461 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 27.03.2026 Published: 05.05.2026 Updated: 05.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.3

Product Status

Vendor sandboxie-plus
Product Sandboxie
Versions
  • Version < 1.17.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE