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NTAP-20220715-0006 — CVE-2022-29824 Libxml2 Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2022-07-15 · Updated 2024-04-25 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20220715-0006 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 · Other NetApp products · ONTAP · SnapManager / Snap utilities | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2022-29824 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2022-29824 — In libxml2 before 2.9.14, several buffer handling functions in buf.c (xmlBuf*) and tree.c (xmlBuffer*) don't check for integer overflows. This can result in out-of-bounds memory writes. Exploitation requires a victim to open a crafted, multi-gigabyte XML file. Other software using libxml2's buffer functions, for example libxslt through 1.1.35, is affected as well.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H300S/H500S/H700S/H410S
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H410C
NetApp Manageability SDK
NetApp SMI-S Provider
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP)
ONTAP Antivirus Connector
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
SnapDrive for Unix
SnapManager for Hyper-V

Official fixes

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP) — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP) — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP) — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP) — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP) — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP Antivirus Connector — vendor fix ↗
NetApp Manageability SDK — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — 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.