CVE-2026-10050 (GCVE-0-2026-10050)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-04 11:02
Modified
2026-08-04 12:46
Severity ?
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty - EE8 Version: 12.0.0   ≤ 12.0.35
Version: 12.1.0   ≤ 12.1.9
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   Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty - EE9 Version: 12.0.0   ≤ 12.0.35
Version: 12.1.0   ≤ 12.1.9
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   Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty Version: 9.4.0   ≤ 9.4.62
Version: 10.0.0   ≤ 10.0.30
Version: 11.0.0   ≤ 11.0.30
Version: 12.0.0   ≤ 12.0.35
Version: 12.1.0   ≤ 12.1.9
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