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NTAP-20220303-0008 — February 2022 Expat Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products

Published 2022-03-03 · Updated 2025-05-15 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: CRITICAL 9.8 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20220303-0008 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP · OnCommand family | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 9.8

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2022-25235 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 · site index
CVE-2022-25236 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 · site index
CVE-2022-25313 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index
CVE-2022-25314 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index
CVE-2022-25315 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2022-25235 — xmltok_impl.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5 lacks certain validation of encoding, such as checks for whether a UTF-8 character is valid in a certain context.

CVE-2022-25236 — xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5 allows attackers to insert namespace-separator characters into namespace URIs.

CVE-2022-25313 — In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5, an attacker can trigger stack exhaustion in build_model via a large nesting depth in the DTD element.

CVE-2022-25314 — In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5, there is an integer overflow in copyString.

CVE-2022-25315 — In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5, there is an integer overflow in storeRawNames.

Impact

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to disclosure of sensitive information, addition or modification of data, or Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610C
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H615C
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
ONTAP 9
OnCommand Workflow Automation

Official fixes

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node — vendor fix ↗
OnCommand Workflow Automation — 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.