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Fortra BoKS Server Agent adjoin machine-account password generation vulnerability

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

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.

Announced Group revision 1
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CVE-2026-9864

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-9864

Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS)

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "vendor": "Fortra",
    "modules": [
      "adjoin"
    ],
    "product": "Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS)",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "8.1.0.0",
        "versionType": "custom",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "8.1.0.29"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "9.0.0.0",
        "versionType": "custom",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "9.0.0.5"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-9864

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#5691 · Revision 1
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