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NTAP-20191122-0002 — CVE-2018-21029 Systemd Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2019-11-22 · Updated 2019-12-20 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20191122-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · E-Series / SANtricity · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP · StorageGRID · Other NetApp products | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information, addition or modification of data, or Denial of Service (DoS).
Affected products
- Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) for VMware vSphere 9.5 and above
- E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - EF600A
- E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
- NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
- NetApp HCI Storage Nodes
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- NetApp SteelStore Cloud Integrated Storage
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above
- Storage Replication Adapter for Clustered Data ONTAP for VMware vSphere 7.2 and above
- StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
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