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NTAP-20171031-0001 — January 2016 Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd) Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products

Published 2017-10-31 · Updated 2019-02-08 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20171031-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP · OnCommand family | ONTAP-relevant

CVEs in this advisory

Impact

Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to bypass security restrictions, conduct spoofing attacks, cause a denial of service or gain unauthorized access to the system.

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP
OnCommand Balance

Official fixes

Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗

References

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#Recent_Vulnerabilities ↗

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.