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NTAP-20161025-0001 — CVE-2016-5195 Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Multiple NetApp Products
Published 2016-10-25 · Updated 2019-05-31 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20161025-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP · OnCommand family · Other NetApp products | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to an unauthorized user privilege escalation.
Affected products
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
- OnCommand Balance
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg)
- OnCommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP
- SnapProtect
Official fixes
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault) — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault) — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault) — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg) — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg) — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software) — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
References
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