CVE-2014-3708

Exp

OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2.x before 2014.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an IP filter in a list active servers API request.

Published: 2014-10-31 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-3708 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.78%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.73% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-3708

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-3708

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 1.06% 2.78% +1.73%
2 2025-07-16 0.91% 1.06% +0.15%
3 2025-04-04 0.91%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-3708

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-3708

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2014-3708

GHSA-43hc-pwvx-pmfg · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: pip — OpenStack Compute (Nova) Denial of Service vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-3708

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2014-3708 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (nova), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3708
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3708
suse low CVE-2014-3708 severity low: SUSE including 28 source package names (openstack-nova-12.0.2~a0~dev18-1.3, openstack-nova-2014.1.4.dev49-0.7.1, …), 28 product×package rows across 2 product lines (SUSE OpenStack Cloud 4, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6): Fixed 28. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3708/
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-3708 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nova), 10 status rows across 10 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 6, DNE 1, ignored 1, needs-triage 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3708

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-3708

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
openstack nova >= 2014.1, < 2014.1.4 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack nova >= 2014.2, < 2014.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat openstack 5.0 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-3708

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