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NTAP-20180423-0002 — CVE-2018-5968 Jackson JSON Library Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2018-04-23 · Updated 2020-12-08 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product
Official advisory: NTAP-20180423-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: E-Series / SANtricity · OnCommand family | other NetApp product
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
<p>Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information, unauthorized addition or updation of data or Denial of Service(DoS). <br><br> Although OnCommand Unified Manager 7.2 and higher ships vulnerable versions of jackson-databind it does not call on enableDefaultTyping() for any polymorphic deserialization operations which is the root cause of this vulnerability. </p>
Affected products
- E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
- E-Series SANtricity Web Services (REST API) for Web Services Proxy
- OnCommand Shift
Official fixes
- E-Series SANtricity Web Services (REST API) for Web Services Proxy — vendor fix ↗
- E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x — vendor fix ↗
What to do
- Compare your installed product and version against the affected list above and the official advisory's affected-versions table.
- Apply the fixed release named in the official advisory, or the documented workaround if no fix ships yet.
- Limit management-plane exposure (BMC/management interfaces, web UIs, SNMP) until patched.
- Track follow-ups in the site CVE index and the security RSS feed.
Related reading
- Site CVE index — every CVE we track, split by year
- Security hub — recent NetApp advisories and what changed
- Security hardening baseline — applies to NetApp management planes generally
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2018