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NTAP-20181112-0001 — Self-Encrypting Solid State Drive Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products
Published 2018-11-12 · Updated 2020-11-18 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product
Official advisory: NTAP-20181112-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: SolidFire / NetApp HCI | other NetApp product
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
<p> ONTAP, SANtricity and StorageGRID based products do not support any of the drive models referenced within the paper from the researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands. <br><br> Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can allow an attacker with physical access to the drive and instrumented hardware and firmware to decrypt the contents of an encrypted drive. </p>
Affected products
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
Official fixes
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software) — vendor fix ↗
References
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