CVE-2026-79899: Fortra Boks Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.9. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Fortra BoKS Manager contains an insecure temporary file vulnerability in bccgethostcert. The utility creates predictable temporary files without first setting a restrictive umask. A local user on the BoKS Master who can read files under BOKS_tmp may be able to obtain CA secret or host private-key material while the utility runs, or obtain CA secret material left behind after successful certificate creation.

Affected products

• Fortra Boks Manager: from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.0.23; from 9.0.0.0, up to and including 9.0.0.6

Published 2026-10-01. Last modified 2026-10-01.