CVE-2026-114406 — Ca-certificates: distrust emudhra intermediate ca certificates due to security concerns

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the sources call it.

Remediation

Fixes and mitigations documented by the sources — linked to the original advisory.

No fix documented by the sources we poll. That does not mean none exists: check the vendor advisory.

First 24 hours

Ordered from the record’s own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found. A rule-generated starting point.

1. Identify exposed assets running the affected vendor/product/version combinations (Red Hat Assisted Installer for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 2, Red Hat Cert-manager Operator For Red Hat Openshift, Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation…).
2. The attack is network-based and needs no privileges: restrict exposure (ACLs, VPN, WAF) until patched.
3. No fix documented in the sources: reduce exposure and monitor the vendor advisory.
4. Exploitation requires user interaction: tighten email/web filtering and warn affected users.
5. Search available logs for exploit probes matching the vulnerability class (cryptography), errors and authentication anomalies.

Affected scope

Vendor, product and versions as the sources word them.

Attack characteristics

The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and may disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Weakness MITRE

Weakness class according to MITRE’s CWE catalog.

CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation

Other CVEs with this weakness →

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not tested rules.

• Prioritize edge telemetry for the network-reachable component (proxy, WAF, IDS/IPS).
• Check TLS negotiations and unexpected certificates in the component’s traffic.

Timeline

What happened to this CVE, newest first.

• 2026
• Affected products added · red hat/assisted installer for red hat openshift container platform 2, red hat/cert-manager operator for red hat openshi
  Oct 21, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
• Record published
  Oct 21, 2026
• CVSS changed · 6.8
  Oct 21, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
• Source status changed · → Received
  Oct 21, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
• Record created in this database
  Oct 21, 2026 · Alertas do Telegram
• CVE published
  Oct 21, 2026 · redhat

Source activity

Repeated readings are counted rather than listed.

• 3× References added · Oct 21, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026
• 1× Official description updated · Oct 21, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026

References

6 on the record

• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-114406
  GitHub Security Advisories
• access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-114406
  vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT, NIST National Vulnerability Database
• github.com/advisories/GHSA-jrx5-4fv3-4mcq
  GitHub Security Advisories
• access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2026-012
  technical-description, x_refsource_REDHAT, NIST National Vulnerability Database
• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:86595
  vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, NIST National Vulnerability Database
• bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
  issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT, NIST National Vulnerability Database

Elsewhere on this site

Related CVEs (same products)

• Medium CVE-2026-85518 Openscap: openscap: arbitrary file write via path traversal in source datastream decomposition 9h
• Low CVE-2026-114236 Podman: goroutine/file-descriptor leak in storage/pkg/archive.applylayer and applyuncompressedlayer on malformed layers 20h
• Medium CVE-2026-92823 Libmodulemd: libmodulemd: missing decompressed-size limit when parsing compressed yaml 1d
• Medium CVE-2026-92824 Libmodulemd: libmodulemd: out-of-bounds read when emitting rpm-map artifacts 1d
• Medium CVE-2026-92822 Libmodulemd: libmodulemd: unbounded recursion when parsing nested xmd yaml 1d
• Medium CVE-2026-114038 Device-mapper-multipath: device-mapper-multipath: information disclosure via malformed format string 1d

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

• No FIRST EPSS score.
• No fixed version, patch or mitigation documented.
• No CISA SSVC assessment.
• No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
• No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
• No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.

Answered from this record

Text assembled only from the fields above — no additional claims.

What should defenders know first?

CVE-2026-114406 is "Ca-certificates: distrust emudhra intermediate ca certificates due to security concerns", rated Medium. It affects Assisted Installer for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 2 (Red Hat); versions are in the scope table. It is not in CISA KEV, which does not rule out exploitation. CVSS 6.8 describes technical severity. First verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run the affected versions, apply vendor fixes or mitigations, and preserve logs for review.

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