CVE-2026-21766 PUBLISHED

HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose insufficiently protects credentials

Assigner: HCL
Reserved: 05.01.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 06.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.4

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

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	HCLSoftware
Product	HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose
Versions	Default: unaffected Version 9.5 is affected

References

https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0132659

Problem Types

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