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NTAP-20190619-0004 — CVE-2019-3829 GnuTLS Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2019-06-19 · Updated 2020-09-14 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 5.3 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20190619-0004 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 5.3

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2019-3829 — MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2019-3829 — A vulnerability was found in gnutls versions from 3.5.8 before 3.6.7. A memory corruption (double free) vulnerability in the certificate verification API. Any client or server application that verifies X.509 certificates with GnuTLS 3.5.8 or later is affected.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above

Official fixes

NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above — vendor fix ↗

References

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.