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NTAP-20170630-0001 — CVE-2017-7947 Information Disclosure Vulnerability in clustered Data ONTAP
Published 2017-06-30 · Updated 2017-07-14 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20170630-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.5
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2017-7947 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2017-7947 — NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP before 8.3.2P11, 9.0 before P4, and 9.1 before P5 allow attackers to obtain sensitive password information by leveraging logging of passwords entered non-interactively on the command line.
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to disclosure of sensitive information.
Affected products
- Clustered Data ONTAP
Official fixes
- Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
- Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
- 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.
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 2017