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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 9.4.0 before 9.4.63, all versions starting from 10.0.0 before 10.0.31, all versions starting from 11.0.0 before 11.0.31, all versions starting from 12.0.0 before 12.0.36, all versions starting from 12.1.0 before 12.1.10

Fixed versions

  • 9.4.63
  • 10.0.31
  • 11.0.31
  • 12.0.36
  • 12.1.10

Solution

Upgrade to versions 9.4.63, 10.0.31, 11.0.31, 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/jetty-security/CVE-2026-10050.yml

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