CVE-2026-79896EPSS p23.6%

CVE-2026-79896CVE-2026-79896

Description

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.

Scoring

CVSS 7.5 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS0.33% probability of exploitation · percentile 23.6% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-10-01
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