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CVE-2026-79901

Fortra BoKS Manager boks-server — Predictable Active Directory service-account passwords in BoKS Manager

EPSS 0.3%CVSS 9.9
critical.is priorityof 100
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CVSS 9.9 (CNA)9.9 / 10 × 3029.7Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 19.3.193 × 203.9No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
BoKS Manager boks-server< 9.0.0.69.0.0.6CNA

Scores by source

Fortra (CNA)9.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

reffortra.com/security/advisories/product-security/fi-2026-012