CVE-2026-78635: medium-severity vulnerability in Okta Privileged Access Client
Improper Input Validation in the Okta Privileged Access SSH Client URL Handler Argument
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
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The Okta Privileged Access client URL handler does not insert an option terminator before appending the target value to the command-line arguments. When a scaleft:// protocol handler link contains a value beginning with a hyphen, the underlying CLI framework interprets it as a command-line flag, causing unintended modification of the SSH client's behavior.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products
Okta · Okta Privileged Access ClientRelated CVEs — Okta Privileged Access Client
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