CVE-2018-18748

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2018-18748 · Published 29/10/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-18748 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting sandboxie (sandboxie-plus).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 84.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
sandboxie sandboxie-plus	`= 5.26`	No fix yet

Description

Sandboxie 5.26 allows a Sandbox Escape via an "import os" statement, followed by os.system("cmd") or os.system("powershell"), within a .py file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue because the observed behavior is consistent with the product's intended functionality

References

sandboxescape/Sandboxie-5.26-Sandbox-Escape-Exploit · Broken Link
sandboxescape/Sandboxie-5.26-Sandbox-Escape-Exploit · Exploit

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

sandboxie

sandboxie-plus

= 5.26

No fix yet

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