CVE•Published 2026-09-08•Modified 2026-09-10•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-78626
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.1
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
—
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
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.
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-2026-78626Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-78626Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-78626Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-78626GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-78626" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-78626 on GitHub.