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NTAP-20170331-0001 — CVE-2017-5988 Denial of Service Vulnerability in clustered Data ONTAP 8.1 and higher

Published 2017-03-31 · Updated 2017-05-25 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20170331-0001 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-2017-5988 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2017-5988 — NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.1 through 9.1P1, when NFS or SMB is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability will allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition to affected versions of clustered Data ONTAP if NFS or SMB protocols are enabled.

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP

Official fixes

Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
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.