CVE-2026-78633 (GCVE-0-2026-78633)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-13 20:08
Modified
2026-10-16 15:31
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Summary
The Okta RADIUS Agent does not validate the sub-attribute length when parsing a Vendor-Specific attribute. A sub-attribute length of zero causes the parser to loop indefinitely, resulting in worker-thread exhaustion and denial of new RADIUS authentication requests.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Okta | Okta RADIUS Agent |
Version: 2.17.5 ≤ |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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