CVE-2026-79896
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 25% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-125
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced