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NTAP-20221007-0007 — CVE-2022-29901 Intel Processor Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2022-10-07 · Updated 2026-03-05 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 5.6 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20221007-0007 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 5.6

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2022-29901 — MEDIUM · CVSS 5.6 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2022-29901 — Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information. <br><br> StorageGRID:<br> StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale) does not provide mechanisms for running unprivileged third-party code and is not affected. For virtualized deployments, NetApp recommends working with your hypervisor and cloud platform vendors to ensure that your NetApp product is running on a secure and patched platform. For Docker-based deployments, NetApp recommends working with your operating system and hardware vendors to ensure that your NetApp product is running on a secure and patched platform.

Affected products

NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Official fixes

ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗

References

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00702.html ↗

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.