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NTAP-20170831-0002 — Unauthorized Read and Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in clustered Data ONTAP 8.3

Published 2017-08-31 · Updated 2017-09-05 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 8.8 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20170831-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 8.8

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2017-12421 — HIGH · CVSS 8.8 · site index
CVE-2017-12423 — HIGH · CVSS 7.7 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2017-12421 — NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.x before 8.3.2P12 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code on the storage controller via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2017-12423 — NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.x before 8.3.2P12 allows remote authenticated users to read data on other Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) via unspecified vectors.

Impact

Exploitation of these vulnerabilities can allow unauthorized cluster or tenant users to read data on other Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) and execute arbitrary code on the storage controller.

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP

Official fixes

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.