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NTAP-20220401-0001 — CVE-2022-22950 Spring Framework Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2022-04-01 · Updated 2024-03-11 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20220401-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · Brocade SAN firmware · ONTAP · OnCommand family · SnapCenter · SnapManager / Snap utilities | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.5
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2022-22950 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2022-22950 — n Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 - 5.3.16 and older unsupported versions, it is possible for a user to provide a specially crafted SpEL expression that may cause a denial of service condition.
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow Denial of Service (DoS).
Affected products
- Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
- Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
- Brocade SAN Navigator (SANnav)
- MetroCluster Tiebreaker for clustered Data ONTAP
- OnCommand Insight
- Snap Creator Framework
- SnapManager for Oracle
Official fixes
- Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux — vendor fix ↗
- Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows — vendor fix ↗
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
- MetroCluster Tiebreaker for clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Insight — vendor fix ↗
- Snap Creator Framework — 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.
Related reading
- Common ONTAP problems (FAQ) — plain-language symptoms and fixes
- ONTAP security hardening — baseline lockdown guidance
- Ransomware protection on ONTAP — SnapLock, SnapMirror vaulting, Anomaly Detection
- ONTAP error messages index — EMS/WAFL/NFS/SnapMirror messages
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2022