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CVE-2026-32603

Sandboxie kernel driver denial of service via malformed IOCTL from sandboxed process

CVSS 8.2 HIGHEPSS 0.2%CWE-20
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 8.2EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
05 May 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
Sandboxie is an open source sandbox-based isolation software for Windows. In versions 1.17.2 and earlier, a local denial of service vulnerability exists in the Sandboxie kernel driver. An unprivileged process running inside a Standard Sandbox can send a malformed IOCTL to the \Device\SandboxieDriverApi driver, triggering an immediate kernel crash (BSOD). The vulnerability affects the Standard Sandbox configuration both with and without dropped administrator privileges, but does not affect the Security Hardened Sandbox configuration. This issue has been fixed in version 1.17.3. Users who cannot update can use the Security Hardened Sandbox configuration as a workaround.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H

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