What is CVE-2015-3886?

CVE-2015-3886 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Libinfinity Project, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-07-21.

How severe is CVE-2015-3886?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Libinfinity Project

CVE-2015-3886

libinfinity before 0.6.6-1 does not validate expired SSL certificates, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

Published 2017-07-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 76.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Libinfinity Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
github.com/gobby/libinfinity/commit/c97f870f5ae13112988d9f8ad464b4f679903706 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/410 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
github.com/gobby/gobby/issues/61 (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-3886?: CVE-2015-3886 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Libinfinity Project, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-07-21.
How severe is CVE-2015-3886?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.