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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-18659 EUVD-2026-101996

Unauthenticated authorization bypass in ConstraintSecurityHandler - HTTP method-omission matched by substring

Published Oct 15, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by eclipse

Description

In Eclipse Jetty, across various versions of `jetty-security`, and `jetty-eeN-security`, and `jetty-eeN-servlet`, the Jakarta Spec constraints defined as `http-method-omission` can be bypassed by using substrings of the defined HTTP Methods.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Eclipse Foundation org.eclipse.jetty.ee11:jetty-ee11-servlet 12.1.0 – ≤ 12.1.11 —
Eclipse Foundation org.eclipse.jetty.ee10:jetty-ee10-servlet 12.1.0 – ≤ 12.1.11, 12.0.0 – ≤ 12.0.38 —
Eclipse Foundation org.eclipse.jetty.ee9:jetty-ee9-security 12.1.0 – ≤ 12.1.11, 12.0.0 – ≤ 12.0.38 —
Eclipse Foundation org.eclipse.jetty.ee8:jetty-ee8-security 12.1.0 – ≤ 12.1.11, 12.0.0 – ≤ 12.0.38 —
Eclipse Foundation org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-security 11.0.0 – ≤ 11.0.32, 10.0.0 – ≤ 10.0.32, 7.6.13 – ≤ 9.4.64 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 jetty12 12.0.39-1 —
Debian 14 jetty9 No fix yet —
Debian 13 jetty9 +1 No fix yet —
Debian 12 jetty9 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 jetty9 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS jetty9 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS jetty9 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS jetty9 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS jetty9 No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS jetty9 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS jetty9 No fix yet —

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