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

CVE-2026-46703

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.

No Active Exploit Signals
CVSS Base Score
9.6
CRITICAL
Exploitability:2.9
Impact Score:6.1
Temporal Score:-
EPSS:0.48%

Threat Intelligence Signals

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VulnCheck In-the-Wild
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Nuclei Template
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EPSS Score
0.482%
EPSS Percentile
37.8th pct
GitHub Severity
CRITICAL
SSVC Exploitation
SSVC Automatable
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