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NTAP-20161108-0001 — CVE-2016-5711 Non-Unique Certificate Vulnerability in Virtual Storage Console
Published 2016-11-08 · Updated 2016-11-08 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: CRITICAL 9.8 · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product
Official advisory: NTAP-20161108-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Other NetApp products | other NetApp product | highest CVSS: 9.8
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2016-5711 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2016-5711 — NetApp Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere before 6.2.1 uses a non-unique certificate, which allows remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks via unspecified vectors.
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to spoofing of the Virtual Storage Console server and decryption or modification of data-in-flight.
Affected products
- Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere 7.2 and above
Official fixes
- Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere 7.2 and above — 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