[ CVE-2026-79901 · Published 1 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in Fortra BoKS Manager boks-server
CVSS 9.9
EPSS <1%No fix listed yet
[ Why it matters ]Priority signals
- Critical severity: CVSS 9.9
[ Description ]Official description
In deployments using BoKS keytab management, affected versions of boks_keytabmd generate Active Directory service-account passwords from a predictable pseudo-random sequence seeded with the current Unix timestamp. An attacker who knows the service principal and can estimate the password-change time can reproduce a limited candidate set and verify candidates offline.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.