CVE-2026-78545
highThe Okta Access Gateway does not sanitize the application label field before including it in the generated nginx configuration file.
Vendor / product: Okta — access gateway
The Okta Access Gateway does not sanitize the application label field before including it in the generated nginx configuration file. The unsanitized value is interpolated into an nginx server block directive, resulting in execution of injected directives.
CVSS
7.2
7.2 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-08 20:18
Modified: 2026-09-29 20:19
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:52 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
okta / access_gateway <2026.9.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
References
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:52 UTC · record ↗