CVE-2026-78579: Okta Access Gateway

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Okta Access Gateway does not sanitize SAML assertion attribute values before interpolating them into LDAP search filters in the LDAP datastore configuration. The raw values are substituted directly into the filter string and passed to the LDAP search operation, resulting in modification of the intended query logic.

Affected products

• Okta Access Gateway: before 2026.9.1 (fixed in 2026.9.1)

Published 2026-09-08. Last modified 2026-09-23.