CVE-2026-79896: Fortra BoKS Manager boks_portmux TLS ClientHello out-of-bounds read vulnerability
Fortra · BoKS Manager
Vendor fix available · Affected: Fortra BoKS Manager · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 26% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Fortra BoKS Manager contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the custom TLS ClientHello parser used by boks_portmux. A remote unauthenticated attacker can submit a malformed ClientHello and terminate boks_portmux. Although the daemon is normally restarted automatically, repeated requests can sustain the service interruption.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Fortra · BoKS Managerfrom 8.1.0.0 up to and including 8.1.0.23; from 9.0.0.0 up to and including 9.0.0.6
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Fortra
- Published
- October 2026
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