Is CVE-2026-78579 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-78579?

CVE-2026-78579 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (6.8).

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CVE-2026-78579

Description

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.