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NTAP-20221209-0003 — November 2022 Libxml2 Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products
Published 2022-12-09 · Updated 2025-10-24 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.8 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · Other NetApp products · ONTAP · SnapManager / Snap utilities | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.8
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2022-40303 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index
- CVE-2022-40304 — HIGH · CVSS 7.8 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2022-40303 — An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault.
CVE-2022-40304 — An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. Certain invalid XML entity definitions can corrupt a hash table key, potentially leading to subsequent logic errors. In one case, a double-free can be provoked.
Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to disclosure of sensitive information, addition or modification of data, or 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 HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
- NetApp Manageability SDK
- NetApp SMI-S Provider
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- ONTAP 9
- ONTAP Antivirus Connector
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
- SnapManager for Hyper-V
Official fixes
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP Antivirus Connector — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp Manageability SDK — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software) — 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.
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