Rate limiting for certain API calls is not being enforced, making HCL Velocity vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. An attacker could flood the system with a large number of requests, overwhelming its resources and causing it to become unresponsive to legitimate users. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.1.7.
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Description Rate limiting for certain API calls is not being enforced, making HCL Velocity vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. An attacker could flood the system with a large number of requests, overwhelming its resources and causing it to become unresponsive to legitimate users. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.1.7.
Title HCL DevOps Velocity is susceptible to a Denial of Service vulnerability
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HCL

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-07T03:26:40.396Z

Reserved: 2025-04-01T18:46:33.656Z

Link: CVE-2025-31990

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-02-07T04:15:52.470

Modified: 2026-02-07T04:15:52.470

Link: CVE-2025-31990

cve-icon Redhat

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