Sandboxie 5.49.7 - Denial of Service | Advisories

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Sandboxie 5.49.7 - Denial of Service

severity: medium
date: January 16, 2026
Affecting: Sandboxie 5.49.7
CVE: CVE-2021-47831
CWE: CWE-1284 Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
CVSS: 4.6
CVSS V4 Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
References: ExploitDB-49844
Sandboxie Official Homepage
Credit: Erick Galindo
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.