CVE-2026-78552

Validation Bypass in Okta Access Gateway Custom Directives

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Sep 8, 2026
Updated
Sep 10, 2026
Reserved
Aug 24, 2026

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Description

The Okta Access Gateway does not apply its Lua directive restriction to the application-level custom configuration field. The field is interpolated directly into the nginx server block without inspection, resulting in execution of injected directives.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.0 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:LOkta

Weaknesses

  • CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Okta Access GatewayOkta
  • before 2026.9.1Affected

References

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