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NTAP-20240105-0005 — January 2024 OpenSSH Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products

Published 2024-01-05 · Updated 2026-01-12 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20240105-0005 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Baseboard management controllers · Active IQ Unified Manager · Brocade SAN firmware · E-Series / SANtricity · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP · NetApp Console / BlueXP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2023-51384 — MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 · site index
CVE-2023-51385 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2023-51384 — In ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 9.6, certain destination constraints can be incompletely applied. When destination constraints are specified during addition of PKCS#11-hosted private keys, these constraints are only applied to the first key, even if a PKCS#11 token returns multiple keys.

CVE-2023-51385 — In ssh in OpenSSH before 9.6, OS command injection might occur if a user name or host name has shell metacharacters, and this name is referenced by an expansion token in certain situations. For example, an untrusted Git repository can have a submodule with shell metacharacters in a user name or host name.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information or addition or modification of data. E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x: Affected only by CVE-2023-51385. Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere Affected only by CVE-2023-51385. ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP): Affected by only CVE-2023-51385. ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: Affected only by CVE-2023-51385 in versions 9.12.1 and 9.13.1.

Affected products

AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A700s
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - 8300/8700/A400/C400
FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A250/500f/C250
NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
ONTAP 9
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
NetApp Console
NetApp Console Agent OVA
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node

Official fixes

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x — vendor fix ↗
FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - 8300/8700/A400/C400 — vendor fix ↗
FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A250/500f/C250 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗

References

https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.6 ↗

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.