HCL Digital Experience/Digital Experience Compose 9.5 Login Portlet information disclosure

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4.3$0-$5k1.15

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose 9.5. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component Login Portlet. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-21766. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in HCL Digital Experience and Digital Experience Compose 9.5. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Login Portlet. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at support.hcl-software.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-21766 since 01/05/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/05/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.3

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

01/05/2026 CVE reserved
08/05/2026 +211 days Advisory disclosed
08/05/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
08/05/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: support.hcl-software.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-21766 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-21766
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-386405

Entryinfo

Created: 08/05/2026 22:25
Changes: 08/05/2026 22:25 (52)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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