Description
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.
References1
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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5.3
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 3 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-78
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