CVE-2026-79901: In deployments using BoKS keytab management, affected versions of boks_keytabmd generate Active Directory service-account passwords from a predictable…

PriorityP260critical9.9CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSCCHIHAH

EPSS

0.27%

17.1th percentile

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

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
fortra	boks_manager_boks-server	< 9.0.0.6	9.0.0.6

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