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NTAP-20180924-0002 — CVE-2018-3643 Intel Processor Power Management Controller Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2018-09-24 · Updated 2020-04-23 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20180924-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · ONTAP · E-Series / SANtricity · Other NetApp products · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · StorageGRID | ONTAP-relevant

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2018-3643 · site index

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access or modification to data, or disclosure of sensitive information or Denial of Service(DoS).

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) for VMware vSphere 9.5 and above
Clustered Data ONTAP
Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 8.x
FAS/AFF BIOS
NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
NetApp HCI Compute Node BIOS
NetApp HCI Storage Node BIOS
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
NetApp SteelStore Cloud Integrated Storage

References

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00131.html ↗

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.