CVE-2026-79901

CVSS 9.9 (critical) · published 2026-10-01

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.

Weakness: CWE-338

Source: NVD CVE-2026-79901

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