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NTAP-20160328-0001 — CVE-2016-0636 Java Platform Standard Edition Vulnerability in Multiple NetApp Products
Published 2016-03-28 · Updated 2018-07-30 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20160328-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: ONTAP · OnCommand family | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to an unauthorized Operating System takeover including arbitrary code execution.
Affected products
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above
- OnCommand Insight
- OnCommand Report
- OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package)
Official fixes
- OnCommand Insight — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package) — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package) — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above — vendor fix ↗
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2016-0636-2949497.html ↗
- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-0636 ↗
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.
Related reading
- Common ONTAP problems (FAQ) — plain-language symptoms and fixes
- ONTAP security hardening — baseline lockdown guidance
- Ransomware protection on ONTAP — SnapLock, SnapMirror vaulting, Anomaly Detection
- ONTAP error messages index — EMS/WAFL/NFS/SnapMirror messages
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2016