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NTAP-20200416-0004 — April 2020 Java Platform Standard Edition Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products

Published 2020-04-16 · Updated 2022-11-21 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product

Official advisory: NTAP-20200416-0004 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Other NetApp products · Active IQ Unified Manager · NetApp Console / BlueXP · E-Series / SANtricity · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · OnCommand family · SnapManager / Snap utilities · StorageGRID  |  other NetApp product  |  highest CVSS: 7.5

CVEs in this advisory

What the CVE records say

CVE-2019-18197 — In xsltCopyText in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a pointer variable isn't reset under certain circumstances. If the relevant memory area happened to be freed and reused in a certain way, a bounds check could fail and memory outside a buffer could be written to, or uninitialized data could be disclosed.

Impact

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to unauthorized takeover of Java, a partial or complete denial of service (DoS) of Java, or to the unauthorized reading or modification of a subset or all of the data accessible to the Java process.

Affected products

Official fixes

References

What to do

  1. Compare your installed product and version against the affected list above and the official advisory's affected-versions table.
  2. Apply the fixed release named in the official advisory, or the documented workaround if no fix ships yet.
  3. Limit management-plane exposure (BMC/management interfaces, web UIs, SNMP) until patched.
  4. Track follow-ups in the site CVE index and the security RSS feed.

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