CVE-2026-79901

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.

  • Published Oct 1, 2026
  • CVSS 9.9 critical
  • 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

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CVE-2026-79901 at the National Vulnerability Database