boxlite-ai boxlite up to 0.8.x access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in boxlite-ai boxlite up to 0.8.x. Impacted is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-46695. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in boxlite-ai boxlite up to 0.8.x. This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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 does not restrict the kernel capabilities available inside the container, malicious code can remount the directory in rw mode, thereby gaining write access to that directory. This allows malicious code to perform arbitrary write operations on directories that should be read-only. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.0.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-46695 since 05/16/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.9.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-36166). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Artificial Intelligence Software

Vendor

• boxlite-ai

Name

• boxlite

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8

Website

• Product: https://github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite/

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