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CVE-2026-10050: Eclipse Jetty Digest Authentication: ISO-8859-1 lossy encoding allows authentication bypass via character substitution

July 22, 2026

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.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2gr
  • github.com/jetty/jetty.project/commit/4bcdbc7db387ce9e20e2c7571a7250280466221d
  • github.com/jetty/jetty.project/commit/d0bb829ccecbf19e3ad3d32f2649b2800f01222d
  • github.com/jetty/jetty.project/issues/15136
  • github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/15160
  • github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/15183
  • github.com/jetty/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-12.0.36
  • github.com/jetty/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-12.1.10
  • github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2gr
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-10050

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 12.0.0 before 12.0.36, all versions starting from 12.1.0 before 12.1.10

Fixed versions

  • 12.0.36
  • 12.1.10

Solution

Upgrade to versions 12.0.36, 12.1.10 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-173: Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding
  • CWE-303: Incorrect Implementation of Authentication Algorithm

Source file

maven/org.eclipse.jetty.ee8/jetty-ee8-security/CVE-2026-10050.yml

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