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NTAP-20160802-0001 — CVE-2015-8020 Default Privileged Account Credentials Vulnerability in in Clustered Data ONTAP

Published 2016-08-02 · Updated 2016-08-02 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: LOW 3.7 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20160802-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 3.7

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2015-8020 — LOW · CVSS 3.7 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2015-8020 — Clustered Data ONTAP versions 8.0, 8.3.1, and 8.3.2 contain a default privileged account which under certain conditions can be used for unauthorized information disclosure.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to the disclosure of the name of a Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) via a limited shell.

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP

Official fixes

Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗

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.