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NTAP-20160816-0001 — CVE-2016-6820 Sensitive Information Disclosure in MetroCluster Tiebreaker for clustered Data ONTAP

Published 2016-08-16 · Updated 2016-08-16 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20160816-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2016-6820 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2016-6820 — MetroCluster Tiebreaker for clustered Data ONTAP in versions before 1.2 discloses sensitive information in cleartext which may be viewed by an unauthenticated user.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to unauthorized disclosure of information.

Affected products

MetroCluster Tiebreaker for clustered Data ONTAP

Official fixes

MetroCluster Tiebreaker for 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.