CriticalCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-79901 (CVSS 9.9)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 1, 2026Risk 50/100

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.

Technical details

CVSS

9.9

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:LowUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High

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