# CVE-2022-38654: HCL Domino is susceptible to an information disclosure vulnerability

> An authenticated attacker can bypass xACL restrictions to read sensitive attributes from user records in HCL Domino.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 4 Nov 2022
- **Updated:** 2 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-79mx-4vf7-wqf7

## What is CVE-2022-38654?

CVE-2022-38654 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HCL Domino, published on 4 Nov 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

HCL Domino is susceptible to an information disclosure vulnerability.  In some scenarios, local calls made on the server to search the Domino directory will ignore xACL read restrictions.  An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to access attributes from a user's person record.

Weakness: CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-38654?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Hcltech Domino.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-38654?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-38654 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-38654 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38654 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in HCL Domino

- [CVE-2022-44750](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-44750/): HCL Domino is susceptible to a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability in lasr.dll in Micro Focus KeyView. (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-44752](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-44752/): HCL Domino is susceptible to a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability in wp6sr.dll in Micro Focus KeyView (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-44754](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-44754/): HCL Domino is susceptible to a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability in lasr.dll in Micro Focus KeyView. (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-14244](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14244/): Memory corruption in HCL Domino (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-14260](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14260/): Memory corruption in HCL Domino (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-38654 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-38654 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HCL Domino, published on 4 Nov 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38654 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: HCL Domino. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38654/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38654/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38654
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38654
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38654

---
From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38654/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.