CVE-2017-12480

7.8 highEPSS 1.0%

High (7.8) in sandboxie sandboxie installer. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sandboxie installer 5071703 has a DLL Hijacking or Unsafe DLL Loading Vulnerability via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll or profapi.dll file in an AppData\Local\Temp directory.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 62% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-426
Published: 2017-08-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

sandboxie:sandboxie_installer

References

https://medium.com/%40BaYinMin/cve-2017-12480-sandboxie-installer-dll-hijacking-or-unsafe-dll-loading-vulnerability-41ad0562f41
https://medium.com/%40BaYinMin/cve-2017-12480-sandboxie-installer-dll-hijacking-or-unsafe-dll-loading-vulnerability-41ad0562f41

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