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NTAP-20190327-0007 — October 2018 GNU Binutils Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products
Published 2019-03-27 · Updated 2019-10-01 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20190327-0007 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: ONTAP · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · StorageGRID | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2018-17794 · site index
- CVE-2018-17985 · site index
- CVE-2018-18309 · site index
- CVE-2018-18483 · site index
- CVE-2018-18484 · site index
Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).
Affected products
- Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
- NetApp Cloud Backup OST Plug-in (formerly AltaVault OST Plug-in)
- NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
- NetApp HCI Storage Nodes
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
- StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
- StorageGRID Webscale NAS Bridge
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 2019