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.
CVE-2019-25551
Score 6.2 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-03-21. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.7.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 6.2(medium)
- EG Risk
- 32(Track)EG Risk 32/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity62% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 21, 2026
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (3)
- disclosure@vulncheckhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46860
- disclosure@vulncheckhttps://www.sandboxie.com
- disclosure@vulncheckhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sandboxie-denial-of-service-via-program-alerts-buffer-overflow
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 6× in last 7d / 6× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-01 04:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-30 16:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-30 01:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-28 15:32 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-27 14:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-27 14:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
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