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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-f396-4rp4-7v2j Boxlite: Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to Arbitrary File Write on the Host
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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

{'score': 9.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-06-10T23:16:47.893

Modified: 2026-06-10T23:16:47.893

Link: CVE-2026-46703

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Updated: 2026-06-10T23:30:44Z

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