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CVE-2026-79901: Predictable Active Directory service-account passwords in BoKS Manager
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-10-01 · updated 2026-10-01
- Weakness: CWE-338
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.
Affected products
- Fortra BoKS Manager boks-server: before 9.0.0.6 — fixed in 9.0.0.6
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Fortra BoKS Manager boks-server 9.0.0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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