HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose insufficiently protects credentials

published 2026-08-05 3mo ago modified 2026-10-23 17d ago also EUVD-2026-53610

cvss: 5.4; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 22%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 3mo ago (2026-08-06)

Exploit prediction

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

HCLSoftware HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose

Classification

Weakness

CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials
CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

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

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-21766
NVD CVE-2026-21766

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