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NTAP-20171222-0001 — CVE-2017-13098 Bouncy Castle TLS Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2017-12-22 · Updated 2018-07-30 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20171222-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Other NetApp products · Active IQ Unified Manager · E-Series / SANtricity · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP · OnCommand family · SnapCenter · SnapManager / Snap utilities · StorageGRID | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to decrypt HTTPS traffic or impersonate the HTTPS server.
Affected products
- 7-Mode Transition Tool
- Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) for Linux 7.3 and above
- Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) for VMware vSphere 9.5 and above
- Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) for Windows 7.3 and above
- E-Series SANtricity Management Plug-ins (Oracle EM)
- E-Series SANtricity Management Plug-ins (VMware vCenter (Linux))
- E-Series SANtricity Management Plug-ins (VMware vCenter)
- E-Series SANtricity Web Services (REST API) for Web Services Proxy
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
- NetApp Service Level Manager
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 6.x
References
- https://robotattack.org/ ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13098 ↗
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/144389 ↗
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