CVE-2026-79901
9.9 CRITICALPublished 2026-10-01 · Updated 2026-10-01
AI risk analysis
- Summary
- The flaw in BoKS keytab management allows attackers to predict and verify service-account passwords, posing a significant security risk.
- Exploitability
- Exploitation is moderately hard as it requires knowledge of the service principal and the ability to estimate the password-change time, but is feasible with the right conditions.
- Blast radius
- If exploited, this flaw could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive services and data within the affected network.
- Detection
- No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
- Prioritized remediation
- Disable the affected feature or upgrade to the latest version of BoKS keytab management, specifically version 2.590 or later.
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NVD 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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-338
All references
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