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NTAP-20180726-0003 — CVE-2018-0737 OpenSSL Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2018-07-26 · Updated 2024-01-02 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 5.9 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Product family: Other NetApp products · ONTAP · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · E-Series / SANtricity · OnCommand family · SnapCenter · SnapManager / Snap utilities | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 5.9
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2018-0737 — MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2018-0737 — The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could recover the private key. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0i-dev (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0h). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2p-dev (Affected 1.0.2b-1.0.2o).
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information.
Affected products
- Cluster Network Switch (NetApp CN1610)
- Data ONTAP Edge
- NetApp Cloud Backup OST Plug-in (formerly AltaVault OST Plug-in)
- NetApp Host Agent
- NetApp Plug-in for Symantec NetBackup
- NetApp SANtricity SMI-S Provider
- NetApp SMI-S Provider
- ONTAP Antivirus Connector
- OnCommand Unified Manager Core Package
- OnCommand Workflow Automation
- SnapCenter
- SnapDrive for Unix
Official fixes
- Cluster Network Switch (NetApp CN1610) — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP Antivirus Connector — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp SANtricity SMI-S Provider — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp SMI-S Provider — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager Core Package — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager Core Package — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Workflow Automation — vendor fix ↗
- SnapCenter — vendor fix ↗
- SnapDrive for Unix — vendor fix ↗
- SnapDrive for Windows — vendor fix ↗
References
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 2018