CVE-2026-110003

Azul Payara Administration REST Interface Authentication Bypass via X-GlassFish-authToken Header Leading to Remote Code Execution

Critical 9.3

Description

A vulnerability in the administration REST interface of Azul Payara allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass secure-admin remote-access restrictions by supplying an arbitrary value in the X-GlassFish-authToken HTTP header. The header's presence waives the remote-rejection check before the token is validated, and an invalid token falls through to password-based authentication, which succeeds without credentials on default domains configured with an empty administrative password. Successful exploitation grants execution of arbitrary administrative commands, equivalent to complete compromise of the server.

Key facts

Published: 12 Nov 2026
Last changed: 12 Nov 2026
Assigned by: Payara
EPSS: 0.654% likely to be exploited in the next 30 days, higher than 51.917% of CVEs (scores for 15 Nov 2026)

Severity scores

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9.3CVSS 4.0, Criticalfrom the CNA (Payara)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Historical context and remediation

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Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Azul Payara	Payara Server	Default status: unaffected 7.0.0 up to but excluding 7.6.0 (affected) 7.2024.1.Alpha1 up to but excluding 7.2026.11 (affected) 6.0.0 up to but excluding 6.44.0 (affected) 6.2022.1 up to and including 6.2025.11 (affected) 5.20.0 up to but excluding 5.93.0 (affected) 5.181 up to and including 5.201.2 (affected) 5.2020.2 up to and including 5.2022.5 (affected) 4.1.2.191 up to but excluding 4.1.2.191.61 (affected)