MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-79896 (CVSS 7.5)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 1, 2026Risk 23/100

Fortra BoKS Manager contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the custom TLS ClientHello parser used by boks_portmux. A remote unauthenticated attacker can submit a malformed ClientHello and terminate boks_portmux. Although the daemon is normally restarted automatically, repeated requests can sustain the service interruption.

Technical details

CVSS

7.5

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:NoneI:NoneA:High

Evidence and sources

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