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ubuntu-cve-2026-10050

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2026-08-04 11:22

Modified

2026-08-10 07:21

Summary

Details

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 supports a charset parameters that defaults to UTF-8 that allows for correct encoding/decoding of passwords.

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

9.1 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-10050	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-10050	REPORT
	https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/a…	REPORT
	https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignmen…	REPORT

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CVE-2026-10050 (GCVE-0-2026-10050)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-04 11:02 – Updated: 2026-08-04 12:46

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. 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.

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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-04 12:45 UTC

CWE

Assigner

eclipse mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/a…
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignmen…

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Eclipse Foundation	Eclipse Jetty - EE8	Affected: 12.0.0 , ≤ 12.0.35 (semver) Affected: 12.1.0 , ≤ 12.1.9 (semver)
Eclipse Foundation	Eclipse Jetty - EE9	Affected: 12.0.0 , ≤ 12.0.35 (semver) Affected: 12.1.0 , ≤ 12.1.9 (semver)
Eclipse Foundation	Eclipse Jetty	Affected: 9.4.0 , ≤ 9.4.62 (semver) Affected: 10.0.0 , ≤ 10.0.30 (semver) Affected: 11.0.0 , ≤ 11.0.30 (semver) Affected: 12.0.0 , ≤ 12.0.35 (semver) Affected: 12.1.0 , ≤ 12.1.9 (semver)

Credits

https://github.com/hrykx-zy

Show details on NVD website

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