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NTAP-20190502-0005 — CVE-2019-3836 GnuTLS Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2019-05-02 · Updated 2019-05-02 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20190502-0005 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).
Affected products
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above
References
- https://www.gnutls.org/security-new.html#GNUTLS-SA-2019-03-27 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3ETB ↗
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/704 ↗
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