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Vulnerability · Published Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by HCL

CVE-2026-21766HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose insufficiently protects credentials

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity sensitive data in logs in HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose from HCLSoftware. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 22% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 77.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
HCLSoftware HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose 9.5

Weakness: CWE-522, CWE-532 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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