Home / Security / Advisories / NTAP-20191121-0002

NTAP-20191121-0002 — CVE-2019-17272 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Published 2019-11-21 · Updated 2019-11-21 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: HIGH 7.2 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20191121-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.2

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2019-17272 — HIGH · CVSS 7.2 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2019-17272 — All versions of ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility are susceptible to a vulnerability which when successfully exploited could allow an administrative user to escalate their privileges.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an administrative user to escalate their privileges and 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.