Sandboxie Plus & Classic
This report summarizes scanner evidence for sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie, a C project with 19,668 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 901,165 lines of code across 1064 source files, recording 5002 pattern matches distributed across 9 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 8.8 (Moderate pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.
Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 1355 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 3647 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 5002 finding(s).
This chart tracks the legacy adjusted pattern score across scan runs. Changes can reflect source changes, scan coverage, or detector/scoring versions; they do not measure AI adoption or prove that a team refactored code. Compare runs only when their scoring versions are compatible. The dashed line tracks the raw pattern-hit count.
Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.
This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.
The scanner identified 5002 distinct pattern matches across 9 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.
Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
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| MEDIUM⚡ | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1729 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM⚡ | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1731 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM⚡ | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1741 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM⚡ | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1743 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 5 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 83 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 87 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 101 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 105 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 179 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 183 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 241 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 245 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 295 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 299 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 358 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 362 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 456 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 460 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 594 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 596 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 662 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 664 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 694 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 696 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 910 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 912 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1029 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1031 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1279 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1281 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1468 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1470 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1498 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1500 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1571 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1573 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1591 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1593 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1611 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1613 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1635 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1637 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1651 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1653 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1673 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1675 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1701 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1703 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1813 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1815 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1951 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 1953 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 2065 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 2067 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 2113 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 2115 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 2153 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/msgs/Text-Farsi-1065.txt | 2155 | #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | Sandboxie/SboxHostDll/stdafx.h | 21 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/SboxHostDll/resource.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 1 | # Last updated v1.18.0 - ea87998 | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 21 | # - Open a new text file (using Notepad or similar text editor) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 41 | ##################### | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 61 | ################### | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 81 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 101 | # Use _HideConf / _HideConfExclusions for popup/case hiding (p/c). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 121 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 161 | # USER INI - END # | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 181 | _RequirementsConf=c|Supporter Certificate|;e|Advanced Encryption Pack|;i|Insider Build|ce;G|Compartment Box Type|;Y|Non- | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 421 | #ReAddedVersion=1.2.3 [Version where setting was reintroduced (if applicable)] | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 441 | # i = Isolation | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 461 | #Requirements=cei0123456789 [Special requirements (multi-select, case-sensitive): | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/SbieSettings.ini | 481 | # [b] = Start of bold text (replaced with <b>) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/Templates.ini | 1 | # | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/Templates.ini | 861 | # For HW accelerated media playback and media device access | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/Templates.ini | 4521 | [Template_KnownConflicts] | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/install/kmdutil/sbiedrv.c | 21 | #include "common/win32_ntddk.h" | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/log.c | 21 | //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/thread.c | 21 | //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/thread.c | 381 | // Thread_AdjustGrantedAccess | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/thread.c | 501 | // Thread_MyImpersonateClient | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/thread.c | 521 | // the conditions above will always be true because a sandboxed | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/thread.c | 661 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/thread.c | 1261 | DesiredAccess = 0; | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 181 | // Notice that the fields in the following parameter structure must | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 401 | // pointer is the user virtual address, so if the driver wishes to | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 441 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 501 | // pointer is the user virtual address, so if the driver wishes to | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 901 | struct { | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1001 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1021 | // sized contexts are used. A size of zero is valid. If an empty pooltag | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1161 | FLT_REGISTRATION_FLAGS Flags; | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1181 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1201 | // ERROR or WARNING status is returned, the filter is not detached. | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1241 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1261 | // (PFILE_OBJECT) in addition to the parameters provided to | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1321 | // bits 16-23: Currently unused | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1341 | // Name query methods. | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1361 | // Only query the file system for the name, bypassing the Filter Manager's | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1381 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1401 | // STATUS_REPARSE was returned. | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1421 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1441 | // The name format that this FLT_FILE_NAME_INFORMATION structure | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1461 | // [Stream name] = ":stream1" | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/my_fltkernel.h | 1481 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/gui_xp.c | 21 | //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/gui_xp.c | 161 | //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/gui_xp.c | 221 | LONG SkipIndexes[32]; | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/gui_xp.c | 481 | UNHOOK_SERVICE(NtUserSetWinEventHook); | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/gui_xp.c | 621 | // of a 4K page that has no following page | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/gui_xp.c | 1061 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/gui_xp.c | 1241 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/session.c | 21 | //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/session.c | 761 | //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/session.c | 1021 | Session_MonitorPutEx(log_type | MONITOR_USER, strings, lengths, (HANDLE)args->log_pid.val, (HANDLE)args->log_tid.val | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/dyn_data.c | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/dyn_data.c | 41 | COMMENT | |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | Sandboxie/core/drv/process_util.c | 675 | // add the value as requested | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/svc/sbieiniserver.cpp | 1763 | // The purpose of this function is to provide a simple machine bound obfuscation | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/dll/file_pipe.c | 1501 | // hence we need to check if the hooking is not yet done and just return | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/dll/file.c | 3791 | // we need to check if the true path exists | COMMENT |
| LOW | SandboxiePlus/SandMan/Helpers/IniHighlighter.cpp | 1540 | //// Step 1: Replace with placeholders | COMMENT |
| LOW | SandboxiePlus/SandMan/Helpers/IniHighlighter.cpp | 1555 | //// Step 2: Replace placeholders with HTML | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | Sandboxie/core/drv/verify.h | 28 | grace_period: 1, // the certificate is expired and or outdated but we keep it valid for 1 extra month to | CODE |
| MEDIUM | …oxiePlus/QtSingleApp/doc/html/qtsingleapplication.html | 86 | <p>The <a href="qtsingleapplication.html#messageReceived">messageReceived</a>() signal will be emitted when the running | CODE |
| MEDIUM | SandboxiePlus/SandMan/Windows/EditorSettingsWindow.cpp | 255 | // Enable last section stretch to utilize available space | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/hash.yml | 22 | GITHUB_API_VERSION: "2026-03-10" # Define the GitHub API version as a variable | CODE |
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/hash.yml | 52 | mkdir -p assets # Create a directory for downloaded assets | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | SandboxiePlus/SandMan/Helpers/IniHighlighter.cpp | 1540 | //// Step 1: Replace with placeholders | COMMENT |
| LOW | SandboxiePlus/SandMan/Helpers/IniHighlighter.cpp | 1555 | //// Step 2: Replace placeholders with HTML | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | .github/workflows/hash.yml | 79 | # Check if any assets were downloaded (excluding the hash file) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/hash.yml | 122 | # Check if an existing hash file asset is present | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | Sandboxie/core/drv/syscall_open.c | 542 | // if we are not allowed to open this process, try the next one, don't forget to close this handle! | COMMENT |