CVE-2025-13532
Weak Password Hash in Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS)
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Fortra
Description
Insecure defaults in the Server Agent component of Fortra's Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) can result in the selection of weak password hash algorithms. This issue affects BoKS Server Agent 9.0 instances that support yescrypt and are running in a BoKS 8.1 domain.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Fortra
- 25 days later
· 25 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| FortraCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.10% · top 99% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Weakness
Affected products
Fortra · Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS)
- affected This issue affects BoKS Server Agent 9.0 instances that support yescrypt and are running in a BoKS 8.1 domain. The affected platforms are: Debian 11, 12, 13, RedHat 9, 10 and Ubuntu 24.
What to do
Solution: Upgrade to BoKS Server Agent 9.0.0.4.
Workaround: Configure the OS to use SHA512 rather than yescrypt.
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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