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NTAP-20180201-0002 — CVE-2015-6563 OpenSSH Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2018-02-01 · Updated 2022-01-06 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.4 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20180201-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.4

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2015-6563 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.4 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2015-6563 — The monitor component in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.0 on non-OpenBSD platforms accepts extraneous username data in MONITOR_REQ_PAM_INIT_CTX requests, which allows local users to conduct impersonation attacks by leveraging any SSH login access in conjunction with control of the sshd uid to send a crafted MONITOR_REQ_PWNAM request, related to monitor.c and monitor_wrap.c.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to an arbitrary code execution or Denial of Service(DoS).

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP
Data ONTAP Edge
Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
NetApp SteelStore Cloud Integrated Storage
NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 6.x
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Official fixes

Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗
Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode — 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.