CVE-2026-78626 PUBLISHED

Improper Input Sanitization in Okta Access Gateway Protected Rules

Assigner: Okta
Reserved: 24.08.2026 Published: 08.09.2026 Updated: 08.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 8.1

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Okta
Product	Okta Access Gateway
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 2026.9.1 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade Okta Access Gateway to version 2026.9.1 or greater.

References

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

Problem Types

Incorrect Authorization