{"id":"CVE-2026-78626","title":"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 Protect…","summary":"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 Protect…","severity":"high","cvss":8.1,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","cwe":["CWE-863"],"vendor":"okta","product":"access_gateway","affected":["access_gateway < 2026.9.1"],"patched":["access_gateway 2026.9.1"],"published":"2026-09-08","updated":"2026-09-22","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-22T20:14:53.140","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78626","references":[{"url":"https://trust.okta.com/security-advisories/improper-input-sanitization-in-okta-access-gateway-protected-rules-cve-2026-78626","label":"psirt@okta.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"epss":0.00205,"epssPercentile":0.10861,"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-09-10T14:35:14.242507Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-09-08T21:11:12.320Z","slug":"CVE-2026-78626","body":"## Overview\n\nThe 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `access_gateway < 2026.9.1`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade past the affected range:\n\n- `access_gateway 2026.9.1`","depth":"twilight","depthScore":45,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":44.6,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}