CVE-2026-78620 Improper Path Validation in Okta Access Gateway Kerberos Configuration Handling

What is CVE-2026-78620?

CVE-2026-78620 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Okta Access Gateway, published on 8 Sep 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Okta Access Gateway Kerberos configuration handler does not validate file paths specified in event payloads before writing file contents. The path from the event payload is used directly as the write destination, resulting in files being written to unintended locations on the appliance filesystem.

Weakness: CWE-73

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-78620?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Okta Access Gateway.

How do I fix CVE-2026-78620?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-78620 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2026-78620 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-78620 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Okta Access Gateway

• CVE-2026-78626 Improper Input Sanitization in Okta Access Gateway Protected Rules High 8.1
• CVE-2026-78623 Improper Handling of SAML Assertion Attributes in Okta Access Gateway Advanced Mode Datastores High 7.7
• CVE-2026-78579 Improper Input Sanitization in Okta Access Gateway LDAP Datastore Filter Interpolation Medium 6.8
• CVE-2026-78625 Insufficient Validation of Dashboard Application Labels in Okta Access Gateway Dashboard Site Configuration Medium 6.7
• CVE-2026-78630 Improper Input Neutralization in Okta Access Gateway SNMP Configuration Processing Medium 6.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q832-9j8g-vg4h.