HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose insufficiently protects credentials

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-21766
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerHCL
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-08-05 20:17:08 UTC
Updated2026-08-05 20:17:08 UTC
DescriptionThe default login portlet in HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose insufficiently protects credentials.  Under certain very specific use cases and specific configurations, sensitive information may be written to web server logs.  This only affects applications using the default login portlet.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 5.4 MEDIUM from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-522 | CWE-532 | CWE-522 CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials | CWE-532 CWE-532 Insertion of sensitive information into log file

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary5.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
3.1CNACVSS5.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA HCLSoftware HCL Digital Experience And Digital Experience Compose affected 9.5 Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
support.hcl-software.com/csm [email protected] support.hcl-software.com
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