CVE-2026-78625 Insufficient Validation of Dashboard Application Labels in Okta Access Gateway Dashboard Site Configuration
Attackers can inject malicious code into dashboard labels, leading to remote code execution with web server privileges in Okta Access Gateway.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-78625?
CVE-2026-78625 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Okta Access Gateway, published on 8 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Okta Access Gateway does not sanitize dashboard label values before writing them into generated PHP configuration files. The generated file is automatically included during authentication requests, resulting in execution with the privileges of the web server process.
Weakness: CWE-94
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-78625?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Okta Access Gateway.
How do I fix CVE-2026-78625?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-78625 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2026-78625 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-78625 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
- CVE-2026-78623 Improper Handling of SAML Assertion Attributes in Okta Access Gateway Advanced Mode Datastores
- CVE-2026-78579 Improper Input Sanitization in Okta Access Gateway LDAP Datastore Filter Interpolation
- CVE-2026-78630 Improper Input Neutralization in Okta Access Gateway SNMP Configuration Processing
- CVE-2021-28113 Command injection in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vp2w-94gp-w964.