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NTAP-20221128-0001 — CVE-2022-42898 Samba Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2022-11-28 · Updated 2022-12-01 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 8.8 · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product

Official advisory: NTAP-20221128-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: SolidFire / NetApp HCI · StorageGRID | other NetApp product | highest CVSS: 8.8

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2022-42898 — HIGH · CVSS 8.8 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2022-42898 — PAC parsing in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.19.4 and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 has integer overflows that may lead to remote code execution (in KDC, kadmind, or a GSS or Kerberos application server) on 32-bit platforms (which have a resultant heap-based buffer overflow), and cause a denial of service on other platforms. This occurs in krb5_pac_parse in lib/krb5/krb/pac.c. Heimdal before 7.7.1 has "a similar bug."

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

Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI
StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)

References

What to do

Compare your installed product and version against the affected list above and the official advisory's affected-versions table.
Apply the fixed release named in the official advisory, or the documented workaround if no fix ships yet.
Limit management-plane exposure (BMC/management interfaces, web UIs, SNMP) until patched.
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