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NTAP-20220826-0005 — CVE-2022-34903 GnuPG Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2022-08-26 · Updated 2024-04-25 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20220826-0005 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2022-34903 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2022-34903 — GnuPG through 2.3.6, in unusual situations where an attacker possesses any secret-key information from a victim's keyring and other constraints (e.g., use of GPGME) are met, allows signature forgery via injection into the status line.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information or addition or modification of data.

Affected products

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

Official fixes

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗

References

https://dev.gnupg.org/T6027 ↗

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.