HCL Connections Docs is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack

published 2025-08-14 14 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-24948

cvss: 4.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits: 0; none known

HCL Connections Docs may mishandle validation of certain uploaded documents leading to denial of service due to resource exhaustion.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 14 mo ago (2025-08-15)

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

HCL Software Connections Docs

Classification

Weakness

CWE-405 Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)

References

support.hcl-software.com /csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0123272
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-31987
NVD CVE-2025-31987

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary