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NTAP-20230706-0007 — CVE-2020-35525 SQLite Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2023-07-06 · Updated 2025-05-29 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20230706-0007 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: 7.5
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2020-35525 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2020-35525 — In SQlite 3.31.1, a potential null pointer derreference was found in the INTERSEC query processing.
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).
Affected products
- NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
Official fixes
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗
References
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 2023