CVE-2026-78635 (GCVE-0-2026-78635)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-08 20:14
Modified
2026-09-10 14:38
CWE
  • CWE-88 - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command
Summary
The Okta Privileged Access client URL handler does not insert an option terminator before appending the target value to the command-line arguments. When a scaleft:// protocol handler link contains a value beginning with a hyphen, the underlying CLI framework interprets it as a command-line flag, causing unintended modification of the SSH client's behavior.
Impacted products
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