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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2026-9864 EUVD-2026-90889GHSA-rh95-jwc3-f9fr

Fortra BoKS Server Agent adjoin machine-account password generation vulnerability

Published Oct 1, 2026 · Updated Oct 1, 2026 · Assigned by Fortra

Description

Fortra BoKS Server Agent contains a predictable password generation vulnerability in the adjoin utility. Machine-account passwords generated during Active Directory join or password renewal operations may have significantly less entropy than intended, making them more susceptible to prediction by an attacker who can estimate when the password was generated.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Fortra Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) 8.1.0.0 – ≤ 8.1.0.29, 9.0.0.0 – ≤ 9.0.0.5 —

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