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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 4, 2026· Updated Aug 4, 2026

CVE-2026-10050

CVE-2026-10050

Description

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.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-securityMaven
>= 9.4.0.v20161208, < 9.4.639.4.63
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-securityMaven
>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.3110.0.31
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-securityMaven
>= 11.0.0, < 11.0.3111.0.31
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-securityMaven
>= 12.0.0, < 12.0.3612.0.36
org.eclipse.jetty.ee8:jetty-ee8-securityMaven
>= 12.0.0, < 12.0.3612.0.36
org.eclipse.jetty.ee9:jetty-ee9-securityMaven
>= 12.0.0, < 12.0.3612.0.36
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-securityMaven
>= 12.1.0, < 12.1.1012.1.10
org.eclipse.jetty.ee8:jetty-ee8-securityMaven
>= 12.1.0, < 12.1.1012.1.10
org.eclipse.jetty.ee9:jetty-ee9-securityMaven
>= 12.1.0, < 12.1.1012.1.10

Affected products

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