CVE-2025-31990 HCL DevOps Velocity is susceptible to a Denial of Service vulnerability
Attackers can cause denial of service by flooding API endpoints due to missing rate limiting in HCL DevOps Velocity.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-31990?
CVE-2025-31990 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in HCLSoftware HCL DevOps Velocity, published on 7 Feb 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-31990?
How do I fix CVE-2025-31990?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-31990 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-31990 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-31990 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6245-cpmx-42v7.