{"id":"CVE-2026-79901","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-79901","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:30:00.904Z","title":"An attacker who knows the service principal and can estimate the password-change time can reproduce a limited candidate set and verify candidates offline.","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.","published":"2026-10-01T14:17:31.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-01T15:17:32.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"df4dee71-de3a-4139-9588-11b62fe6c0ff","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.9,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-338"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00271,"percentile":0.19144,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-02","score":0.00266,"percentile":0.17033}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.27%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-01T14:17:31.000Z","detail":{"score":"9.9","severity":"CRITICAL","publishedAt":"2026-10-01T14:17:30.883Z"},"summary":"New CVE, critical severity (CVSS 9.9)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.fortra.com/security/advisories/product-security/fi-2026-012","source":"df4dee71-de3a-4139-9588-11b62fe6c0ff"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79901","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}