HCL DevOps Velocity is susceptible to a Denial of Service vulnerability

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    "dateUpdated": "2026-02-07T03:26:40.396Z",
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      "title": "HCL DevOps Velocity is susceptible to a Denial of Service vulnerability",
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          "value": "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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