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NTAP-20210201-0002 — CVE-2020-8589 Sensitive Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Clustered Data ONTAP

Published 2021-02-01 · Updated 2021-02-01 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: LOW 3.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20210201-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 3.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2020-8589 — LOW · CVSS 3.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2020-8589 — Clustered Data ONTAP versions prior to 9.3P20 and 9.5P15 are susceptible to a vulnerability which could allow unauthorized tenant users to discover the names of other Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) and filenames on those SVMs.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information.

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP

Official fixes

Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
Clustered Data ONTAP — 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.