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NTAP-20181204-0001 — CVE-2018-5496 Sensitive Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode

Published 2018-12-04 · Updated 2018-12-04 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 4.4 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20181204-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 4.4

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2018-5496 — MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2018-5496 — Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode versions prior to 8.2.5P2 are susceptible to a vulnerability which discloses sensitive information to an unauthorized user.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to the disclosure of volume space usage across vFiler units to an authenticated but unauthorized user.

Affected products

Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode

Official fixes

Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode — vendor fix ↗

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.