CVE-2026-10050

9.1 CRITICALpublic exploit available

Published 2026-08-04 · Updated 2026-08-08

AI risk analysis

Summary: The flaw allows attackers to bypass authentication by sending a crafted `Authorization` header with password characters replaced by '?', matching any non-ISO-8859-1 password of the same length.
Exploitability: Exploitation is relatively easy if an attacker can send a request with a specific crafted `Authorization` header, requiring knowledge of the password length but not its exact content.
Blast radius: If exploited, this could lead to unauthorized access to protected resources, especially in systems where non-ISO-8859-1 characters are used frequently.
Prioritized remediation: Update to a version of Eclipse Jetty that supports the `charset` parameter in HTTP Digest authentication headers, defaulting to UTF-8 for correct encoding/decoding.

auth-bypasswebiso-8859-1http-digest

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NVD 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](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7616) supports a `charset` parameters that defaults to UTF-8 that allows for correct encoding/decoding of passwords.

CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

CWE-173, CWE-303

Vendors

eclipse

Products

jetty

Public exploit & PoC references

https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2gr[Vendor Advisory, Exploit]
https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2gr[Vendor Advisory, Exploit]

All references

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