https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:05:10 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2026-10050 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty - EE8, Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty - EE9, Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty</p> <p>In Eclipse Jetty, the Digest authentication server-side component uses ISO-8859-1 to encode the password as bytes.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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`.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty - EE8, Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty - EE9, Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty</p> <p>In Eclipse Jetty, the Digest authentication server-side component uses ISO-8859-1 to encode the password as bytes.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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`.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2026-10050