CVE-2026-78626

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (6.5) in okta access gateway. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Okta Access Gateway improperly handles input sanitization and regular expression evaluation within its Protected Rule authorization check, resulting in an authorization bypass when an administrator has explicitly configured a Protected Rule policy on one or more application resources.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 29% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-863
Published: 2026-09-08
Modified: 2026-09-22
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

okta:access_gateway

References

https://trust.okta.com/security-advisories/improper-input-sanitization-in-okta-access-gateway-protected-rules-cve-2026-78626

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