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NTAP-20210720-0001 — CVE-2020-7469 FreeBSD Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2021-07-20 · Updated 2022-03-22 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20210720-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2020-7469 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2020-7469 — In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r367402, 11.4-STABLE before r368202, 12.2-RELEASE before p1, 12.1-RELEASE before p11 and 11.4-RELEASE before p5 the handler for a routing option caches a pointer into the packet buffer holding the ICMPv6 message. However, when processing subsequent options the packet buffer may be freed, rendering the cached pointer invalid. The network stack may later dereference the pointer, potentially triggering a use-after-free.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).

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 ↗

References

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:31.icmp6.asc ↗

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.