Use of Weak Hash Affecting sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie package, versions [,1.17.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SANDBOXIEPLUSSANDBOXIE-16424093
  • published6 May 2026
  • disclosed5 May 2026
  • creditYanchon918s

Introduced: 5 May 2026

CVE-2026-34527  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-328  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie to version 1.17.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Weak Hash due to incorrect nibble extraction in the HashPassword process. An attacker can recover or brute-force password hashes more easily by exploiting the reduced entropy in stored password hashes.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1