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NTAP-20220121-0001 — CVE-2021-45485 Linux Kernel Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2022-01-21 · Updated 2025-05-15 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product
Official advisory: NTAP-20220121-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Baseboard management controllers · Active IQ Unified Manager · Brocade SAN firmware · E-Series / SANtricity · SolidFire / NetApp HCI | other NetApp product
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information.
Affected products
- AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A700s
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
- Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
- E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
- FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - 8300/8700/A400/C400
- NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H300S/H500S/H700S/H410S
- NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H410C
- NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610C
- NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
- NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H615C
- NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
Official fixes
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
- AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A700s — vendor fix ↗
- E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x — vendor fix ↗
- FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - 8300/8700/A400/C400 — vendor fix ↗
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.13.3 ↗
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=62f20e068ccc50d6ab66fd ↗
What to do
- Compare your installed product and version against the affected list above and the official advisory's affected-versions table.
- Apply the fixed release named in the official advisory, or the documented workaround if no fix ships yet.
- Limit management-plane exposure (BMC/management interfaces, web UIs, SNMP) until patched.
- Track follow-ups in the site CVE index and the security RSS feed.
Related reading
- Site CVE index — every CVE we track, split by year
- Security hub — recent NetApp advisories and what changed
- Security hardening baseline — applies to NetApp management planes generally
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2022