Is this vulnerability remotely exploitable?

Yes. An attacker who can send HTTP requests to a vulnerable Jetty instance can potentially exploit this issue by influencing how authentication flows execute and how threads are reused.

Does an attacker need valid credentials to exploit this?

Not necessarily. While having an account can make it easier to shape authentication flows, the core problem is the reuse of stale ThreadLocal state. In some scenarios, an unauthenticated attacker may benefit from a previous legitimate user's state being leaked onto their request.

What is the safest general fix pattern?

Ensure that all ThreadLocal-based authentication state is cleared in a guaranteed way, such as wrapping the entire authentication and request processing in a try/finally block that always removes or resets ThreadLocal values, even on early exit or error.

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.4)

Stale ThreadLocal Authentication State (CWE-226) in Eclipse Jetty JASPIAuthenticator

CVE-2026-5795

Published:

Apr 8, 2026

Status:

Undergoing Analysis

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

NDV

Recent Vulnerabilities

CWE-77;CWE-78

CRITICAL RISK

CRITICAL

(9.8)

OS Command Injection (CWE-78) in Totolink A7100RU CGI Handler setAccessDeviceCfg

Remote Code Execution on the Router

April 12, 2026

CWE-77;CWE-78

CRITICAL RISK

CRITICAL

(9.8)

OS Command Injection (CWE-78) in Totolink A7100RU CGI setLedCfg Handler

Remote Code Execution on the Router

April 12, 2026

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Stale Authentication State / Race Conditions in Security Context

CWE:

CWE-226;CWE-287

Impact:

Broken Access Control and Privilege Escalation

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.4)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Stale Authentication State / Race Conditions in Security Context

CWE:

CWE-226;CWE-287

Impact:

Broken Access Control and Privilege Escalation

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.4)

CVSS Version:

3.1

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Stale ThreadLocal Authentication State (CWE-226) in Eclipse Jetty JASPIAuthenticator

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

Recent Vulnerabilities

CRITICAL RISK

CRITICAL

(9.8)

OS Command Injection (CWE-78) in Totolink A7100RU CGI Handler setAccessDeviceCfg

CRITICAL RISK

CRITICAL

(9.8)

OS Command Injection (CWE-78) in Totolink A7100RU CGI setLedCfg Handler

Vulnerability Type

Vulnerability Type

Vulnerability Type

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