Security Resilience

CVE-2026-107231

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Published
07 October 2026
Modified
10 October 2026
CVSS Score v4 8.7
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0024 14th percentile
Risk Priority 43 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2026-107231 is a high-severity Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information (CWE-319) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Network Sniffing (T1040); ranked at the 14th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SC-13 (Cryptographic Protection) and SC-8 (Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A04:2025 Cryptographic FailuresA06:2025 Insecure Design

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. Prior to 3.0.13 and 2.16.1, Realm.Builder treats a Digest challenge that yields no usable nonce as a Basic challenge. A malicious origin or…

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proxy can label a challenge Digest while omitting or emptying the nonce, causing the client to resend the username and password using reversible Basic authentication. Both origin and proxy challenge parsers are affected. This issue is fixed in versions 3.0.13 and 2.16.1.

CWE(s)
CWE-319CWE-522CWE-757

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1040 Network Sniffing Credential Access
Adversaries may passively sniff network traffic to capture information about an environment, including authentication material passed over the network.
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T1600 Weaken Encryption Defense Impairment
Adversaries may compromise a network device’s encryption capability in order to bypass encryption that would otherwise protect data communications.
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T1689 Downgrade Attack Defense Impairment
Adversaries may downgrade or use a version of system features that may be outdated, vulnerable, and/or does not support updated security controls.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-36582Shared CWE-757
CVE-2026-55953Shared CWE-757
CVE-2026-32650Shared CWE-757
CVE-2025-54156Shared CWE-319, CWE-522
CVE-2026-85719Shared CWE-319, CWE-522
CVE-2025-10693Shared CWE-757
CVE-2024-8773Shared CWE-757
CVE-2026-2673Shared CWE-757
CVE-2026-6092Shared CWE-757
CVE-2026-89177Shared CWE-757

Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 5 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V12.1.1
  • V12.2.1
  • V12.3.3
  • V17.2.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SC-13 Cryptographic Protection partial match

Specifying and implementing required cryptography types directly precludes negotiation or acceptance of weaker algorithms.

SC-8 Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity partial match

SC-8 directly requires protecting confidentiality of transmitted information, which structurally eliminates cleartext transmission of sensitive data.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.DS-02 partial match
blocks

Encryption of data-in-transit directly prevents cleartext transmission while the control also addresses integrity and availability.

PR.AA-04 none match
blocks

PR.AA-04 addresses protection/verification of identity assertions in SSO/federation contexts while CWE-757 concerns protocol-level crypto algorithm negotiation, so the control neither prevents nor meaningfully mitigates the weakness.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.5.10 Acceptable use of information and other associated assets partial match
blocks

A.5.10 only requires awareness, a topic-specific acceptable-use policy stating expected behaviours/monitoring, and procedures referencing other controls (e.g. access restrictions, marking, disposal); it performs none of the verb on CWE-522's insecure credential transmission/storage, which requires technical protections like encryption or secure channels that this governance clause does not supply.

A.5.14 Information transfer partial match
blocks

Mandating cryptographic protection and stronger authentication on public networks stops the transmission of plaintext sensitive information.

A.5.15 Access control partial match
removes
A.5.16 Identity management partial match
removes
A.5.17 Authentication information partial match
removes
A.5.18 Access rights partial match
removes

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (higher-evidence rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).

Windows 10 (1 rule)
  • V-220938 The LanMan authentication level must be set to send NTLMv2 response only, and to refuse LM and NTLM. blocks CWE-757
Windows Server 2016 (1 rule)
  • V-225054 The LAN Manager authentication level must be set to send NTLMv2 response only and to refuse LM and NTLM. blocks CWE-757
Windows Server 2019 (1 rule)
  • V-205919 Windows Server 2019 LAN Manager authentication level must be configured to send NTLMv2 response only and to refuse LM and NTLM. blocks CWE-757

References