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CVE-2017-12480

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

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.

Affected products

• Sandboxie Installer: 5071703

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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