CVE-2026-10050

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.
Configurations

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History

08 Aug 2026, 00:38

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CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 9.1
CPE cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References () https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2gr - () https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2gr - Vendor Advisory, Exploit
References () https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignment/-/work_items/120 - () https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignment/-/work_items/120 - Issue Tracking
First Time Eclipse
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04 Aug 2026, 13:17

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References () https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2gr - () https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2gr -

04 Aug 2026, 11:22

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-08-04 11:22

Updated : 2026-08-08 00:38


NVD link : CVE-2026-10050

Mitre link : CVE-2026-10050

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-10050


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Products Affected

eclipse

  • jetty
CWE
CWE-173

Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding

CWE-303

Incorrect Implementation of Authentication Algorithm