What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities
CVE-2026-78626: Improper Input Sanitization in Okta Access Gateway Protected Rules
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-09-08 · updated 2026-09-22
- Weakness: CWE-863
Description
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.
Affected products
- Okta Access Gateway: before 2026.9.1 — fixed in 2026.9.1
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Okta Access Gateway 2026.9.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
Get alerted when CVE-2026-78626 or the next vulnerability affects your stack