CVE-2026-21766

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Published 2026-08-05 · Modified 2026-08-05

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CVSS v3

5.4

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

64%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

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

CWEs

CWE-522 CWE-532

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.