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NTAP-20191113-0002 — Intel SA-00240 Processor Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products
Published 2019-11-13 · Updated 2020-06-08 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20191113-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · ONTAP · E-Series / SANtricity · Other NetApp products · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · StorageGRID | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to privilege escalation.
Affected products
- Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) for VMware vSphere 9.5 and above
- Clustered Data ONTAP
- Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
- E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
- FAS/AFF BIOS
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
- NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
- NetApp HCI Compute Node BIOS
- NetApp HCI Storage Node BIOS
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- NetApp SteelStore Cloud Integrated Storage
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