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NTAP-20191121-0001 — CVE-2019-5509 Unauthenticated Remote Code Injection Vulnerability in ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Published 2019-11-21 · Updated 2019-11-21 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: CRITICAL 9.8 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20191121-0001 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-2019-5509 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2019-5509 — ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility versions 2.11.2 through 2.12.2 are susceptible to a code injection vulnerability which when successfully exploited could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to enable and use a privileged user account.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to enable and use a privileged user account. The account can be used to take control of Deploy and the non-Deploy resources to which it has authenticated access.

Affected products

ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Official fixes

ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗
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.