CVE-2026-10050 — Security Box Score

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CVE-2026-10050HIGH

Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty - EE8 — Digest authentication lossy encoding

  AV  AC  AT  PR  UI  VC  VI  VA   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   N   L   N   N   N   H   N   N    8.7   .0047   38.9     —

AFFECTED
  Product              Versions  Fixed
  Eclipse Jetty - EE8  12.0.0 –  —
  Eclipse Jetty - EE9  12.0.0 –  —
  Eclipse Jetty        9.4.0 –   —

TIMELINE
  May 29  Reserved by eclipse
  Aug 4   EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-10050 (Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty - EE8). Public exploit reference added.
  Aug 4   Published (CNA: eclipse)

CWE-173, CWE-303 · CNA: eclipse · CVSS v4.0 · 2 references · NVD status: Analyzed

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.

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
May 29, 2026	Reserved	Reserved by eclipse
August 4, 2026	EXPLOIT PUBLISHED	EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-10050 (Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty - EE8). Public exploit reference added.
August 4, 2026	Published	Published (CNA: eclipse)

Affected

Affected products and packages — 3 rows
Vendor	Product / Package	Ecosystem	Version introduced	Fixed
Eclipse Foundation	Eclipse Jetty - EE8	—	12.0.0	—
Eclipse Foundation	Eclipse Jetty - EE9	—	12.0.0	—
Eclipse Foundation	Eclipse Jetty	—	9.4.0	—

Weaknesses

CWE-173 · CWE-303

References (2)

https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2gr [Vendor Advisory, Exploit]
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignment/-/work_items/120 [Issue Tracking]

Authoritative record: CVE-2026-10050 at cve.org

Vendors: eclipse foundation

Weaknesses: CWE-173 · CWE-303

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