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NTAP-20191024-0001 — CVE-2019-5508 L2ping Denial of Service Vulnerability in Clustered Data ONTAP 9.2 and higher

Published 2019-10-24 · Updated 2019-12-03 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20191024-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2019-5508 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2019-5508 — Clustered Data ONTAP versions 9.2 through 9.4 are susceptible to a vulnerability which allows an attacker to use l2ping to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP

Official fixes

Clustered Data ONTAP — 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.