CVE-2026-78626

high

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.

References

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

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