Crash and disclosure via unchecked serialized credential buffers
Published Oct 13, 2026 · Updated Oct 13, 2026
Buffer-validation failure in Okta MFA Credential Provider for Windows allows attackers to crash its process via malformed credentials. It interprets serialized input as a Kerberos logon structure without checking buffer length or packed string offsets, enabling out-of-bounds reads and writes and disclosure into local system logs. Exploitation requires the provider to process a malformed buffer; required privileges and remote reachability are not established by the supplied record or retrieved vendor material.
Summary
What happened
Buffer-validation failure in Okta MFA Credential Provider for Windows allows attackers to crash its process via malformed credentials. It interprets serialized input as a Kerberos logon structure without checking buffer length or packed string offsets, enabling out-of-bounds reads and writes and disclosure into local system logs. Exploitation requires the provider to process a malformed buffer; required privileges and remote reachability are not established by the supplied record or retrieved vendor material.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-78628
- Published
- Oct 13, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 13, 2026
- Vendor
- Okta
- Product
- Okta MFA Credential Provider for Windows
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- Unavailable
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 13, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 13, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
Present is not the same as exploitable
Compare your product and version with the public record. A matching version still requires validation against your environment.
Is a vulnerable build present?
Compare these published version ranges with your installed build and any vendor patches.
- Affected versionversion=0 <1.4.6.0
What conditions does exploitation require?
What is affected?
Published CVSS scores
No CVSS assessment is available in this record.
CVSS describes severity. EPSS estimates exploitation probability.
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
Daily unique IPs observed by Shadowserver honeypots for known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs). Missing observations do not establish an absence of attacks.
Activity data is delayed. The latest report is Sep 28, 2026.
Weakness, pattern, technique
No sourced classifications are available.
Public exploit references
No public exploit references are available in this record.
Labels summarize the accepted research assessment. They do not indicate a test against your environment.
Technologies
Your stack
See the directory against your own environment.
Your stack
Check the software in your environment
Get started to see how Hinoki identifies affected software and validates exploitability in your environment.
Get started