# CVE-2025-31991: HCL DevOps Velocity is susceptible to brute-force attacks

> Attackers can bypass login rate limits to perform brute-force attacks and potentially take over user accounts in HCL DevOps Velocity.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Apr 2026
- **Updated:** 13 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3gpw-5r2f-ch38

## What is CVE-2025-31991?

CVE-2025-31991 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HCLSoftware Velocity, published on 13 Apr 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-307 (Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-31991?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Hcltech Devops Velocity.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-31991?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-31991 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-31991 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-31991 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in HCLSoftware Velocity

- [CVE-2024-22347](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22347/): IBM UrbanCode Velocity information disclosure (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2024-22348](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22348/): IBM UrbanCode Velocity cross-origin resource sharing (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-22349](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22349/): IBM UrbanCode Velocity information disclosure (medium 4.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-31991 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-31991 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HCLSoftware Velocity, published on 13 Apr 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-31991 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: HCLSoftware Velocity. 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-2025-31991/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-31991/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-31991
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-31991
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-31991

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-31991/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.