Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Affecting sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie package, versions [,1.16.2)
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- published31 Jul 2025
- disclosed29 Jul 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 29 Jul 2025
NewCVE-2025-54422 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie to version 1.16.2 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information via the Imbox process during password modification operations, where both old and new passwords are passed as plaintext command-line arguments without encryption or obfuscation. An attacker can access sensitive credentials by reading these arguments from shared memory, even from unprivileged processes within the same user session.