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NTAP-20160310-0002 — CVE-2016-1563 TLS Certificate Verification vulnerability in Clustered Data ONTAP

Published 2016-03-10 · Updated 2016-03-10 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.8 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20160310-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.8

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2016-1563 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2016-1563 — NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.1 does not properly verify X.509 certificates from TLS servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP

Official fixes

Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗

References

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-1563 ↗

What to do

Check the affected products listed above against the official advisory's affected-versions table — that is where the exact ONTAP 9 release, ONTAP tool, or management product versions are named.
If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.