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NTAP-20190719-0002 — CVE-2018-14404 Libxml2 Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2019-07-19 · Updated 2024-03-07 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20190719-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: ONTAP · Other NetApp products | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.5
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2018-14404 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2018-14404 — A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).
Affected products
- Data ONTAP Edge
- NetApp Plug-in for Symantec NetBackup
- NetApp SMI-S Provider
- ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP)
- ONTAP Antivirus Connector
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
Official fixes
- ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP) — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP) — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP) — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP) — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP) — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP Antivirus Connector — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp SMI-S Provider — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — 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.
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