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NTAP-20220217-0011 — CVE-2021-27796 Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware Vulnerability
Published 2022-02-17 · Updated 2022-02-17 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product
Official advisory: NTAP-20220217-0011 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Brocade SAN firmware | other NetApp product
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to an attacker gaining complete knowledge of any file contents on the system with what seems to be the equivalent of root permissions. This could lead to a complete compromise of data confidentiality.
Affected products
- Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
References
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