# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-10050"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-04T11:02:40.503Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-04T12:46:38.770Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:50.502Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-10050"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-10050.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-10050"
title: "Digest authentication lossy encoding"
summary: "In Eclipse Jetty, the Digest authentication server-side component uses ISO-8859-1 to encode the password as bytes.\n\n\n\nThis 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.\n\n\n\nIf 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`.\n\n\n\nAn 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.\n\n\n\nRecent 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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"12.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"12.0.35"},{"version":"12.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"12.1.9"}],"vendor":"Eclipse Foundation","product":"Eclipse Jetty - EE8","packageName":"org.eclipse.jetty.ee8:jetty-ee8-security","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"12.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"12.0.35"},{"version":"12.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"12.1.9"}],"vendor":"Eclipse Foundation","product":"Eclipse Jetty - EE9","packageName":"org.eclipse.jetty.ee9:jetty-ee9-security","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"9.4.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"9.4.62"},{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"10.0.30"},{"version":"11.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"11.0.30"},{"version":"12.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"12.0.35"},{"version":"12.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"12.1.9"}],"vendor":"Eclipse Foundation","product":"Eclipse Jetty","packageName":"org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-security","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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