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.
Affected products
hcltech: devops velocity
References1
- support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB01… Vendor Advisory
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.8
CRITICAL
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 15 · as of 12 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-307
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