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NTAP-20161019-0001 — October 2016 Java Platform Standard Edition Vulnerabilities in Multiple NetApp Products
Published 2016-10-19 · Updated 2019-02-07 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20161019-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Other NetApp products · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP · OnCommand family · SnapManager / Snap utilities · StorageGRID | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2016-5556 · site index
- CVE-2016-5568 · site index
- CVE-2016-5582 · site index
- CVE-2016-5573 · site index
- CVE-2016-5597 · site index
- CVE-2016-5554 · site index
- CVE-2016-5542 · site index
Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to a takeover of Java or to the unauthorized reading or modification of a subset or all of the data accessible to the Java process.
Affected products
- 7-Mode Transition Tool
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above
- OnCommand Cloud Manager
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg)
- OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package)
- OnCommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP
- SnapManager for Oracle
- SnapManager for SAP
- StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
- StorageGRID9 (9.x and prior)
Official fixes
- 7-Mode Transition Tool — vendor fix ↗
- 7-Mode Transition Tool — vendor fix ↗
- SnapManager for SAP — vendor fix ↗
- SnapManager for SAP — vendor fix ↗
- StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale) — 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 ↗
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg) — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg) — vendor fix ↗
- StorageGRID9 (9.x and prior) — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software) — vendor fix ↗
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html ↗
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html#AppendixJAVA ↗
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html ↗
- https://blogs.oracle.com/security/entry/october_2016_critical_patch_update ↗
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