CVE-2025-31991 PUBLISHED

HCL DevOps Velocity is susceptible to brute-force attacks

Assigner: HCL
Reserved: 01.04.2025 Published: 13.04.2026 Updated: 13.04.2026

Rate Limiting for attempting a user login is not being properly enforced, making HCL DevOps Velocity susceptible to brute-force attacks past the unsuccessful login attempt limit. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.1.7.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.8

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Changed
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	High	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	HCLSoftware
Product	Velocity
Versions	Default: unaffected Version <.5.1.7 is affected

References

https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0130138

Problem Types

CWE-307 Improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts CWE