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NTAP-20190521-0001 — CVE-2019-5018 SQLite Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2019-05-21 · Updated 2019-08-07 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20190521-0001 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 · Other NetApp products | ONTAP-relevant

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2019-5018 · site index

Impact

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

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP
Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
NetApp HCI Storage Nodes
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
StorageGRID Webscale NAS Bridge
Trident

References

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0777 ↗

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.