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NTAP-20180612-0001 — CVE-2018-5488 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in SANtricity Products

Published 2018-06-12 · Updated 2018-06-12 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: CRITICAL 9.8 · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product

Official advisory: NTAP-20180612-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: E-Series / SANtricity | other NetApp product | highest CVSS: 9.8

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2018-5488 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2018-5488 — NetApp SANtricity Web Services Proxy versions 1.10.x000.0002 through 2.12.X000.0002 and SANtricity Storage Manager 11.30.0X00.0004 through 11.42.0X00.0001 ship with the Java Management Extension Remote Method Invocation (JMX RMI) service bound to the network, and are susceptible to unauthenticated remote code execution.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to unauthenticated remote code execution on SANtricity Web Services Proxy or SANtricity Storage Manager servers.

Affected products

E-Series SANtricity Storage Manager
E-Series SANtricity Web Services (REST API) for Web Services Proxy

Official fixes

E-Series SANtricity Web Services (REST API) for Web Services Proxy — vendor fix ↗
E-Series SANtricity Storage Manager — 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.
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