Vulnerability intelligence

CVE-2026-79901

Fortra BoKS Manager boks-server CWE-338

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.

CVSS Score

9.9

Critical

EPSS — Exploit Probability

0.3%

Riskier than 17% of all CVEs · checked 2026-10-03

Exploitation

Not in CISA KEV

KEV does not include every exploited vulnerability

Remediation

unknown

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