Sandboxie 5.30 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string in the Program Alerts configuration field. Attackers can paste a buffer of 5000 characters into the 'Select or enter a program' field during program alert configuration to trigger an application crash.

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

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Version Status Constraints
5.30 affected —

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https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46860 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.sandboxie.com cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sandboxie-denial-of-service-via-program-alerts-buffer-overflow cve-icon cve-icon
History

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Sandboxie 5.30 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string in the Program Alerts configuration field. Attackers can paste a buffer of 5000 characters into the 'Select or enter a program' field during program alert configuration to trigger an application crash.
Title Sandboxie 5.30 Denial of Service via Program Alerts Buffer Overflow
First Time appeared Sandboxie-plus
Sandboxie-plus sandboxie
Weaknesses CWE-1282
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:sandboxie-plus:sandboxie:5.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Sandboxie-plus
Sandboxie-plus sandboxie
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-21T12:46:54.305Z

Reserved: 2026-03-21T12:28:57.417Z

Link: CVE-2019-25551

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-21T13:16:17.317

Modified: 2026-03-21T13:16:17.317

Link: CVE-2019-25551

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