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GHSA-VJJ9-W76C-7Q84

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-05 21:31 – Updated: 2026-08-05 21:31

Details

The 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.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2026-21766 (GCVE-0-2026-21766)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-05 20:11 – Updated: 2026-08-06 13:12

Title

HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose insufficiently protects credentials

Summary

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-06 13:12 UTC

CWE

CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials
CWE-532 - Insertion of sensitive information into log file

Assigner

HCL

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_articl…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HCLSoftware	HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose	Affected: 9.5

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.

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GHSA-VJJ9-W76C-7Q84

CVE-2026-21766 (GCVE-0-2026-21766)

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