CVE-2026-78579: Improper Input Sanitization in Okta Access Gateway LDAP Datastore Filter Interpolation
Medium · CVSS 6.8 (CVSS 3.1)EPSS 0.33%, 26th percentilePublished Updated Assigner: Okta
Description
The Okta Access Gateway does not sanitize SAML assertion attribute values before interpolating them into LDAP search filters in the LDAP datastore configuration. The raw values are substituted directly into the filter string and passed to the LDAP search operation, resulting in modification of the intended query logic.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N · CWE-90
Tracked companies
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Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
Okta: Okta Access Gateway
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- trust.okta.com/security-advisories/improper-input-sanitization-in-okta-access-gatewa… (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)