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Security teams are familiar with the comforting sense of safety that comes from utilizing security controls like Single sign-on (SSO) providers to manage their organization’s major applications and critical tools. When these applications are routed through Okta, Azure AD, or other identity providers, your SaaS environment can seem managed and accounted for. But lurking underneath is a significant vulnerability: the SSO blind spot.

Almost a decade after its discovery, the critical remote code execution vulnerability known as CVE-2016-10033 continues to pose a significant threat to web applications worldwide. In this post, we explain why it's so dangerous and the essential steps to protect your systems from this critical exposure in 2025.