CVE•Published 2026-09-08•Modified 2026-09-10•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-78552
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
6.0
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
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.
Timeline
Published 2026-09-08
Modified 2026-09-10
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-78552Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-78552Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-78552Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-78552GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-78552" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-78552 on GitHub.
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