9.1

CVE-2026-10050: eclipse foundation eclipse jetty Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding

CVSS: 9.1v3.1CriticalAnalyzed
AliasesSUSE-SU-2026:3631-1UBUNTU-CVE-2026-10050DEBIAN-CVE-2026-10050
Published 04-08-2026Last modified 04-08-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-10050 is a critical (CVSS 9.1) Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding vulnerability in eclipse foundation eclipse jetty. EPSS estimates a 0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.1/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.63%
0%100%
Low · +0.15 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 1
CGA-MHWC-69G2-8CP8

Timeline

  1. 04-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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 metrics

9 scores · 7 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.63%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

49%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.15 pp

From 0.48% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.63%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Jetty.Project

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard94 products
  • akhq< 0.27.1-r10
  • apache-activemq-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • apache-activemq-6.1All versions (No fix recorded)
  • apache-activemq-6.2All versions (No fix recorded)
  • apache-activemq-fips-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
Wolfi24 products
  • akhq< 0.27.1-r10
  • apache-pulsar-4.1All versions (No fix recorded)
  • apache-tika-3.1< 3.1.0-r38
  • apache-tika-3.2< 3.2.3-r14 | < 3.2.3-r18
  • apache-tika-3.2-compat< 3.2.3-r18
Suse12 products
  • jetty-minimal&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS< 9.4.58-150200.3.43.1
  • jetty-minimal&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS< 9.4.58-150200.3.43.1
  • jetty-minimal&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS< 9.4.58-150200.3.43.1
  • jetty-minimal&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS< 9.4.58-150200.3.43.1
  • jetty-minimal&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7< 9.4.58-150200.3.43.1
Eclipse foundation3 products
  • eclipse jetty≥ 9.4.0, ≤ 9.4.62 | ≥ 10.0.0, ≤ 10.0.30 | ≥ 11.0.0, ≤ 11.0.30 | ≥ 12.0.0, ≤ 12.0.35 | ≥ 12.1.0, ≤ 12.1.9
  • eclipse jetty - ee8≥ 12.0.0, ≤ 12.0.35 | ≥ 12.1.0, ≤ 12.1.9
  • eclipse jetty - ee9≥ 12.0.0, ≤ 12.0.35 | ≥ 12.1.0, ≤ 12.1.9
Debian2 products
  • jetty12All versions (No fix recorded)
  • jetty9All versions (No fix recorded)
Ubuntu2 products
  • jetty12All versions (No fix recorded)
  • jetty9All versions (No fix recorded)
Eclipse1 product
  • jetty≥ 9.4.0, < 9.4.63 | ≥ 10.0.0, < 10.0.31 | ≥ 11.0.0, < 11.0.31 | ≥ 12.0.0, < 12.0.36 | ≥ 12.1.0, < 12.1.10
Opensuse1 product
  • jetty-minimal&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 9.4.58-5.1
Org.eclipse.jetty1 product
  • jetty-security≥ 9.4.0.v20161208, < 9.4.63 | ≥ 10.0.0, < 10.0.31 | ≥ 11.0.0, < 11.0.31 | ≥ 12.0.0, < 12.0.36 | ≥ 12.1.0, < 12.1.10
Org.eclipse.jetty.ee81 product
  • jetty-ee8-security≥ 12.0.0, < 12.0.36 | ≥ 12.1.0, < 12.1.10
Org.eclipse.jetty.ee91 product
  • jetty-ee9-security≥ 12.0.0, < 12.0.36 | ≥ 12.1.0, < 12.1.10

11 vendors · 142 products

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