GHSA-2FVJ-HGJ9-J2GR Eclipse Jetty Digest Authentication: ISO-8859-1 lossy encoding allows authentication bypass via character substitution

Summary The DigestAuthentication.apply method in Jetty's HTTP client uses getBytesStandardCharsets.ISO88591 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...

CVE-2020-5229

Opencast before 8.1 stores passwords using the rather outdated and cryptographically insecure MD5 hash algorithm. Furthermore, the hashes are salted using the username instead of a random salt, causing hashes for users with the same username and password to collide which is problematic especially...