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● CVE — Critical

CVE-2026-79901

DiscoveredOct 1, 2026UpdatedOct 1, 2026

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 v3.1
9.9 CRITICAL
EPSS
0.27%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
2
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Oct 3, 2026 → Oct 26, 2026
● 0.01pp
0.27% → 0.27% over 2 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
ScopeCHANGED
ConfidentialityHIGH
IntegrityHIGH
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Connections
3 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Oct 1, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record.
Oct 3, 2026
securityweek.com reports: Fortra Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in BoKS
Oct 5, 2026
thehackernews.com reports: ⚡ Weekly Recap: NetScaler and FortiMail 0-Days, AI Coding Leaks, Spectre v2 and Ransomware Arrests