CVE-2026-10050
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
Digest authentication lossy encoding
In Eclipse Jetty, the Digest authentication server-side component uses ISO-8859-1 to encode the password as bytes. This was done because the initial specification for HTTP did not specify explicitly a charset, and it was assumed to be ISO-8859-1 for historical reasons. If the password contains characters that cannot be represented in ISO-8859-1, they are silently replaced by `?`. This happens with passwords that contain Chinese, Cyrillic or Greek characters, for example: `αβ123` converts to `??123`. An attacker can send a request with a digest `Authorization` header crafted with a password made of only `?` characters; the server would match any password of the same length that contains non-ISO-8859-1 characters. Recent HTTP Digest [RFC-7616](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7616) supports a `charset` parameters that defaults to UTF-8 that allows for correct encoding/decoding of passwords.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Eclipse Jetty - EE8
- Vendor
- Eclipse Foundation
- Product
- Eclipse Jetty - EE8
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected- Package
- org.eclipse.jetty.ee8:jetty-ee8-security
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.0.0 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 12.0.35 | None listed |
| 12.1.0 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 12.1.9 | None listed |
Eclipse Jetty - EE9
- Vendor
- Eclipse Foundation
- Product
- Eclipse Jetty - EE9
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected- Package
- org.eclipse.jetty.ee9:jetty-ee9-security
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.0.0 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 12.0.35 | None listed |
| 12.1.0 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 12.1.9 | None listed |
Eclipse Jetty
- Vendor
- Eclipse Foundation
- Product
- Eclipse Jetty
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected- Package
- org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-security
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.4.0 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 9.4.62 | None listed |
| 10.0.0 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 10.0.30 | None listed |
| 11.0.0 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 11.0.30 | None listed |
| 12.0.0 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 12.0.35 | None listed |
| 12.1.0 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 12.1.9 | None listed |