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NTAP-20211004-0005 — September 2021 LibTIFF Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products

Published 2021-10-04 · Updated 2024-04-25 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20211004-0005 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2020-19143 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index
CVE-2020-19144 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2020-19143 — Buffer Overflow in LibTiff v4.0.10 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the "TIFFVGetField" funtion in the component 'libtiff/tif_dir.c'.

CVE-2020-19144 — Buffer Overflow in LibTiff v4.0.10 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the 'in _TIFFmemcpy' funtion in the component 'tif_unix.c'.

Impact

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Official fixes

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.