CVE-2026-77585 in Privileged Access Client

Summary

by MITRE • 08/25/2026

The Okta Privileged Access client does not reject a leading hyphen in the username portion of an SSH target. As a result, the value may be interpreted as a command-line option by the underlying SSH process.

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• Responsible: Okta
• Reservation: 08/20/2026
• Disclosure: 08/25/2026
• Moderation: accepted
• Entry: VDB-395227
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-20 (confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.3 (CNA)
• EPSS: 0.00000
• KEV: no
• Activities: very low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77585
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77585
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-77585/