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1 vulnerability found for HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose by HCLSoftware

CVE-2026-21766 (GCVE-0-2026-21766)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-05 20:11
Modified
2026-08-06 13:12
CWE
  • CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials
  • CWE-532 - Insertion of sensitive information into log file
Summary
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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