CVE-2026-78630 Improper Input Neutralization in Okta Access Gateway SNMP Configuration Processing

What is CVE-2026-78630?

CVE-2026-78630 is a medium-severity command 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 neutralize shell metacharacters in SNMP configuration values before a privileged script uses them to construct OS commands. An authenticated local user with access to the management interface can supply crafted values, resulting in the execution of arbitrary OS commands with root privileges.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-78630?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Okta Access Gateway.

How do I fix CVE-2026-78630?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-78630 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2026-78630 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-78630 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-2021-28113 Command injection in n/a Medium 6.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-872h-225f-x88w.