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NTAP-20221020-0001 — CVE-2021-4214 Libpng Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2022-10-20 · Updated 2023-11-02 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20221020-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · NetApp Console / BlueXP · E-Series / SANtricity · Other NetApp products · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP · SnapCenter · StorageGRID | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).
Affected products
- Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
- Cloud Insights Storage Workload Security Agent
- E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
- NetApp Converged Systems Advisor Agent
- NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
- ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere
- SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere/BlueXP backup and Recovery for Virtual Machine
- StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
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