CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-79896

7.5 HIGH Published 2026-10-01 Modified 2026-10-01 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-10-01
Last modified
2026-10-01
Assigner
df4dee71-de3a-4139-9588-11b62fe6c0ff
CVSS 3.1 (df4dee71-de3a-4139-9588-11b62fe6c0ff)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125

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.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References