CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-19864

MediumCVSS 5.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In Eclipse Jetty, SessionAuthentication retains authentication credentials in a serializable object. When the credentials contain a plaintext password and the authenticated session is persisted to a session data store, the password may consequently be written to persistent storage in plaintext. An attacker with sufficient privileges to read the persisted session data may obtain the plaintext passwords of authenticated users.

Risk Assessment

Disclosure of plaintext passwords may allow an attacker to take over user accounts and further compromise the system.

Recommendation

Update Eclipse Jetty to a patched version, and if not possible, consider disabling persistent session storage or encrypting the session store.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Eclipse Jetty's `SessionAuthentication` retains authentication credentials in a serializable object. When the credentials contain a plaintext password and the authenticated session is persisted to a session data store, the password may consequently be written to persistent storage in plaintext. An attacker with sufficient privileges to read the persisted session data may obtain the plaintext passwords of authenticated users.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS