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.
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-f396-4rp4-7v2j | Boxlite: Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to Arbitrary File Write on the Host |
Fixes
Solution
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Workaround
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History
Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:45:00 +0000
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Boxlite-ai
Boxlite-ai boxlite |
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Boxlite-ai
Boxlite-ai boxlite |
Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:30:00 +0000
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| 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. | |
| Title | BoxLite: Path Traversal Vulnerability in boxlite Leads to Arbitrary File Write on the Host | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 | |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-06-10T22:20:24.569Z
Reserved: 2026-05-15T23:26:58.309Z
Link: CVE-2026-46703
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-06-10T23:16:47.893
Modified: 2026-06-10T23:16:47.893
Link: CVE-2026-46703
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-06-11T10:40:31Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA