A vulnerability exists in Sitecore Experience Manager (XM), Experience Platform (XP), Experience Commerce (XC), and Managed Cloud that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files. This vulnerability affects all Experience Platform topologies (XM, XP, XC) from 8.0 Initial Release through 10.4 Initial Release and later. This issue affects Content Management (CM) and standalone instances. PaaS and containerized solutions are also affected.
The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.