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NTAP-20190923-0001 — CVE-2019-5504 Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution Vulnerability in ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
Published 2019-09-23 · Updated 2019-09-23 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: CRITICAL 9.8 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20190923-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 9.8
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2019-5504 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2019-5504 — ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility versions 2.12 & 2.12.1 ship with an HTTP service bound to the network allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to perform administrative actions.
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability will allow unauthorized remote attackers to perform administrative actions.
Affected products
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
Official fixes
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗
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