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NTAP-20190923-0002 — CVE-2019-5505 Sensitive Information Disclosure 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-20190923-0002 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-2019-5505 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2019-5505 — ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility versions 2.2 through 2.12.1 transmit credentials in plaintext.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to discover credentials by intercepting its transmission within an http session.

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.