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CVE-2026-12627

9.8 CRITICAL

Published 2026-10-01 · Updated 2026-10-01

AI risk analysis

Summary
The flaw is a stack-based buffer overflow in Fortra's Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS), which can lead to memory corruption. This vulnerability is critical as it allows a remote attacker to exploit network access to the autoregistration service to trigger the flaw.
Exploitability
Exploitation is relatively straightforward given network access to the autoregistration service. The attacker must send a crafted request to trigger the buffer overflow.
Blast radius
If exploited, this vulnerability could result in complete control of the affected system, leading to data theft, service disruption, or further attacks.
Detection
No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
Prioritized remediation
Upgrade to the latest version of Fortra's Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) as soon as possible.
buffer-overflowremote-code-executionnetwork-exploitcritical

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NVD description

Fortra's Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in boks_autoregisterd. A remote attacker with network access to the autoregistration service may be able to trigger memory corruption during client response processing.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-121

All references

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