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NTAP-20230427-0010 — CVE-2023-21971 MySQL Connector/J Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2023-04-27 · Updated 2026-08-05 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product

Official advisory: NTAP-20230427-0010 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · OnCommand family | other NetApp product

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2023-21971 · site index

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Connectors as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Connectors accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Connectors accessible data.

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
OnCommand Insight

Official fixes

Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux — vendor fix ↗
Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows — vendor fix ↗
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
OnCommand Insight — vendor fix ↗

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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