CVE-2022-38653 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

In HCL Digital Experience, customized XSS payload can be constructed such that it is served in the application unencoded.

Published: 2022-12-15

Score: 2 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

HCL Software

HCL Digital Experience

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`8.5, 9.0, 9.5`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:digital_experience:8.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:digital_experience:9.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:digital_experience:9.5:::::::*

No data.

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-41226	In HCL Digital Experience, customized XSS payload can be constructed such that it is served in the application unencoded.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00424.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0102141

History

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Hcltech Digital Experience

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HCL

Published: 2022-12-15T20:56:55.103Z

Updated: 2025-04-18T14:56:02.038Z

Reserved: 2022-08-22T16:31:27.393Z

Link: CVE-2022-38653

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T11:02:14.492Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-19T11:15:10.257

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:16:52.100

Link: CVE-2022-38653

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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