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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

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

Official fixes

What to do

  1. 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.
  2. If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
  3. If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
  4. Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.

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