Fortra's \nCore Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the boks_autoregisterd service. A remote attacker with network access to the service may be able to cause commands to be executed with the privileges of the service during the autoregistration processing.
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"}],"value":"Upgrade to boks-server 8.1.0.23 or 9.0.0.5."}],"source":{"discovery":"INTERNAL"},"title":"Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) autoregistration service command injection vulnerability","workarounds":[{"lang":"en","supportingMedia":[{"base64":false,"type":"text/html","value":"Restrict network access to boks_autoregisterd, which listens on port 6507 by default, until fixed builds are deployed.
Another workaround for both boks-server 8.1 and 9.0 is to disable the service in the boksinit configuration. On the BoKS Master, edit
$BOKS_var/internal/boksinit/master
and comment out the line
`autoregisterd:300:1:0:respawn::$BOKS_lib/boks_autoregisterd -xn`
by prefixing it with
`#`;
then make boks_init reread the file, for example by running
`kill -HUP $(cat $BOKS_var/run/boks_init)`,
or restart BoKS. This stops boks_autoregisterd and prevents it from being respawned; autoregistration is unavailable until the row is restored.
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