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NTAP-20160830-0001 — CVE-2016-5047 Denial of Service Vulnerability in OnCommand System Manager 8.3.x
Published 2016-08-30 · Updated 2016-08-30 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.5 · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product
Official advisory: NTAP-20160830-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: OnCommand family | other NetApp product | highest CVSS: 6.5
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2016-5047 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2016-5047 — NetApp OnCommand System Manager 8.3.x before 8.3.2P5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability can allow an authenticated user to cause a PHP process stack corruption resulting in a core dump and a denial-of-service (DoS) to OnCommand System Manager.
Affected products
- OnCommand System Manager 9.x
Official fixes
- OnCommand System Manager 9.x — vendor fix ↗
What to do
- Compare your installed product and version against the affected list above and the official advisory's affected-versions table.
- Apply the fixed release named in the official advisory, or the documented workaround if no fix ships yet.
- Limit management-plane exposure (BMC/management interfaces, web UIs, SNMP) until patched.
- Track follow-ups in the site CVE index and the security RSS feed.
Related reading
- Site CVE index — every CVE we track, split by year
- Security hub — recent NetApp advisories and what changed
- Security hardening baseline — applies to NetApp management planes generally
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2016