CVE-2026-78552 (GCVE-0-2026-78552)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-08 20:08
Modified
2026-09-10 17:49
CWE
  • CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Okta Okta Access Gateway Version: 0   ≤
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