CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2026-79896

    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.

    Published:Oct 1, 2026
    Last Modified:Oct 1, 2026
    EPS:Oct 1, 2026
    EPSS Score:
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fortra
    Product
    Boks Manager

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High