CVE-2026-78626

mediumpriority · track · 26OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.004 · 29 %ileUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.36% (29th) EPSS
CVSS 6.5 · medium
Is it mine?
1 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
1 sources
nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.1
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6–8.1

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 5.2
v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · psirt@okta.comexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.2
v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
02

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
03

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-863US
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affected products (1)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

nvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2026-09-08modified 2026-09-22
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references (1) nvd

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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