CVE-2026-10050

criticalpriority · track · 36EPSS 0.006 · 50 %ileDEEUFRNLUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
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0.63% (50th) EPSS
CVSS 9.1 · critical
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cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · ncsc_nl

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–critical · 6.6–9.1

v3.19.1criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.2
v3.19.1criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · NCSC-NL NL
v4.08.7highCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:Nsecondary · ENISA EU
v4.08.7highCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Xsecondary · emo@eclipse.org
v4.06.6mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Xsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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affected products (32)

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advisories (9)

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  • NCSC-2026-0325Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Atlassian productenNL2026-08-24csaf · ncsc_nlNL

    Atlassian heeft kwetsbaarheden verholpen in diverse producten zoals Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira, Crowd en Fisheye. De kwetsbaarheden bevinden zich in diverse Third-Party producten waar eerder updates voor zijn verschenen. Atlassian heeft deze updates verwerkt in de eigen producten.

  • NCSC-2026-0444Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Oracle CommunicationsNL2026-10-21csaf · ncsc_nlNL

    Oracle heeft 110 kwetsbaarheden verholpen in diverse Oracle Communications-producten, waaronder Oracle Communications Unified Assurance, Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Security Edge Protection Proxy, Oracle Communications Service Catalog and Design en Oracle Communications Operations Monitor.

  • WID-SEC-W-2026-2314Eclipse Jetty: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-07-13csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Eclipse Jetty ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen und vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen.

  • WID-SEC-W-2026-2867RealObjects PDFreactor: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen nicht spezifizierten AngriffDeutsch2026-08-16csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in RealObjects PDFreactor ausnutzen, um einen nicht näher spezifizierten Angriff durchzuführen.

  • WID-SEC-W-2026-2923Atlassian Produkte (Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Crucible, Fisheye, und Jira): Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-08-18csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Atlassian Bamboo, Atlassian Bitbucket, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Crucible, Atlassian Fisheye und Atlassian Jira ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen, um Informationen offenzulegen, um Dateien zu manipulieren, um einen Cross-Site Scripting Angriff durchzuführen, um einen SQL-Injection Angriff durchzuführen, und um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.

  • WID-SEC-W-2026-4090Oracle Communications: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-10-20csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, anonymer oder authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Oracle Communications ausnutzen, um die Vertraulichkeit, Integrität und Verfügbarkeit zu gefährden.

  • GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2grEclipse Jetty Digest Authentication: ISO-8859-1 lossy encoding allows authentication bypass via character substitution2026-07-22ghsa · osvUS

    ### Summary The `DigestAuthentication.apply()` method in Jetty's HTTP client uses `getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1)` at three locations (lines 171, 179, 196) to compute Digest auth response hashes. ISO-8859-1 silently replaces any character above U+00FF (Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, Arabic, Emoji, etc.) with 0x3F (`?`), causing all such characters to produce identical hash contributions. An attacker who knows a victim's username can bypass Digest authentication by replacing all non-Latin-1 characters in the password with `?` characters, since the collision password produces the same MD5-based Digest response hash as the original password. ### Details ### Root Cause In `jetty-core/jetty-client/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/client/DigestAuthentication.java`, the `apply()` method computes the three Digest auth hashes (H(A1), H(A2), and the final response) using ISO-8859-1 character encoding: ```java // Line 171 — H(A1) String hashA1 = toHexString(digester.digest(a1.getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1))); // Line 179 — H(A2) String hashA2 = toHexString(digester.digest(a2.getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1))); // Line 196 — Final response hash final String hashA3 = toHexString(digester.digest(a3.getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1))); ``` ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) can only encode characters in the range U+0000–U+00FF. Any character outside this range — including all CJK, Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Hangul, and emoji characters — is silently replaced with the byte `0x3F` (`?`). `String.getBytes(ISO_8859_1)` in Java performs this replacement without any warning or exception. ### PoC ``` Password: "我爱Java!密码123★" (7 non-Latin-1 characters) UTF-8 encoding: 45 bytes → MD5 H(A1) = 9a4e61484f228633d5d0f95d1bbb0a99 ISO-8859-1: 31 bytes → MD5 H(A1) = d60ddc903d71913bcc3ab4a94f7fc239 Collision "??...": 31 bytes → MD5 H(A1) = d60ddc903d71913bcc3ab4a94f7fc239 ← IDENTICAL ``` Multi-language confirmation — all four language passwords below produce the same hash: ``` Chinese (密码123) → H(A1) = db87f31e8d96cd15f9acec7eabdc4560 Korean (비번123) → H(A1) = db87f31e8d96cd15f9acec7eabdc4560 Cyrillic(аб123) → H(A1) = db87f31e8d96cd15f9acec7eabdc4560 Greek (αβ123) → H(A1) = db87f31e8d96cd15f9acec7eabdc4560 Attacker(??123) → H(A1) = db87f31e8d96cd15f9acec7eabdc4560 ← all collide! ``` ### Impact **Scenario 1: Authentication Bypass (Collision Attack)** If a service using Jetty for Digest authentication has a user with a non-Latin-1 password (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Russian), an attacker can authenticate as that user using a collision password where all non-Latin-1 characters are replaced with `?`: - Original password: `我爱Java!密码123★` - Collision password: `??Java!??123?` - **Both produce identical MD5 hashes under ISO-8859-1** → Authentication succeeds This affects any password containing characters > U+00FF, which covers: - Chinese (CJK): U+4E00–U+9FFF - Japanese (Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji): U+3040–U+30FF, U+4E00+ - Korean (Hangul): U+AC00–U+D7AF - Cyrillic: U+0400–U+04FF (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, etc.) - Arabic: U+0600–U+06FF - Greek: U+0370–U+03FF - Latin Extended: U+0100–U+024F (accented European characters like ĉ, ğ, ñ when > U+00FF) - Emoji / Symbols > U+00FF **Scenario 2: Denial of Service for Non-Latin-1 Users** Most modern web applications store password hashes computed using UTF-8. When Jetty's Digest client computes a hash with ISO-8859-1, the bytes differ from what the server stored/expects. This means **any user with non-ASCII (Latin-1+) characters in their password can never successfully authenticate via Digest auth** — even the legitimate user. This is not just a security issue but a functional correctness bug that silently breaks authentication for most non-European-language users.

  • CERTFR-2026-AVI-1336Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBMFrançais2026-10-16vendor · certfrFR
  • CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMwareFrançais2026-10-26vendor · certfrFR
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