CVE-2019-25551

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.

CVSS v3 6.2 MEDIUM

6.2^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.5 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46860	Exploit VDB Entry
https://www.sandboxie.com	Product
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sandboxie-denial-of-service-via-program-alerts-buffer-overflow	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:sandboxie-plus:sandboxie:5.30:*:*:*:classic:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-03-21 13:16

Updated : 2026-03-23 17:06

NVD link : CVE-2019-25551

Mitre link : CVE-2019-25551

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-25551

JSON object : View

Products Affected

sandboxie-plus

sandboxie

CWE

CWE-1282

Assumed-Immutable Data is Stored in Writable Memory

CWE-1284

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

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