Is CVE-2026-79901 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-79901?

CVE-2026-79901 has a CVSS v3 severity of CRITICAL (9.9).

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CVE-2026-79901

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.