CVE 9.6 CRITICAL

BoxLite: Path Traversal Vulnerability in boxlite Leads to Arbitrary File Write on the Host_CVE-2026-46703

9.6 / 10
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Boxlite is a sandbox service that allows users to create lightweight virtual machines (Boxes) and launch OCI containers within them to run untrusted code. Prior to version 0.9.0, Boxlite allows users to specify the OCI image used by containers in the sandbox. However, when processing tar entries in OCI images, Boxlite does not account for the possibility that entries may be symlinks pointing to absolute paths. An attacker can craft a malicious OCI image and distribute it on image hosting platforms such as DockerHub, tricking users into using it. Once a user loads the malicious image, the attacker can write arbitrary content to any path on the host, which can further lead to remote code execution on the host. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.0.

AI Analysis

Path Traversal Vulnerability in boxlite Leads to Arbitrary File Write on the Host

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-46703
Source GitHub_M
Published Jun 10, 2026 at 22:20

Affected Product

Vendor boxlite-ai
Product boxlite
Version < 0.9.0
Affected Versions boxlite-ai boxlite < 0.9.0

CWE Classification

AI Assessment

AI Score 9.6 / 10
AI Severity Critical
Vendor boxlite-ai
Product boxlite
Version < 0.9.0

References

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