What is CVE-2014-3706?

CVE-2014-3706 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Mrg, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-10-18.

How severe is CVE-2014-3706?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Mrg

CVE-2014-3706

ovirt-engine, as used in Red Hat MRG 3, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers by leveraging failure to verify key attributes in vdsm X.509 certificates.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

Published 2017-10-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (52.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 52.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Mrg — versions 3.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/101507 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-3706?: CVE-2014-3706 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Mrg, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-10-18.
How severe is CVE-2014-3706?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.