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NTAP-20220616-0001 — CVE-2015-20107 Python Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2022-06-16 · Updated 2024-03-07 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.6 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20220616-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · ONTAP · SnapCenter | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.6

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2015-20107 — HIGH · CVSS 7.6 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2015-20107 — In Python (aka CPython) up to 3.10.8, the mailcap module does not add escape characters into commands discovered in the system mailcap file. This may allow attackers to inject shell commands into applications that call mailcap.findmatch with untrusted input (if they lack validation of user-provided filenames or arguments). The fix is also back-ported to 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

Impact

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

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
SnapCenter

Official fixes

Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows — vendor fix ↗
Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗
SnapCenter — vendor fix ↗
SnapCenter — vendor fix ↗

References

https://bugs.python.org/issue24778 ↗

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.