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NTAP-20240208-0006 — CVE-2024-0727 OpenSSL Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2024-02-08 · Updated 2025-05-29 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 5.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20240208-0006 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · Baseboard management controllers · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · Other NetApp products · ONTAP · OnCommand family · SnapManager / Snap utilities | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 5.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-0727 — MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-0727 — Issue summary: Processing a maliciously formatted PKCS12 file may lead OpenSSL to crash leading to a potential Denial of Service attack Impact summary: Applications loading files in the PKCS12 format from untrusted sources might terminate abruptly. A file in PKCS12 format can contain certificates and keys and may come from an untrusted source. The PKCS12 specification allows certain fields to be NULL, but OpenSSL does not correctly check for this case. This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference that results in OpenSSL crashing. If an application processes PKCS12 files from an untrusted source using the OpenSSL APIs then that application will be vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL APIs that are vulnerable to this are: PKCS12_parse(), PKCS12_unpack_p7data(), PKCS12_unpack_p7encdata(), PKCS12_unpack_authsafes() and PKCS12_newpass(). We have also fixed a similar issue in SMIME_write_PKCS7(). However since this function is related to writing data we do not consider it security significant. The FIPS modules in 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - 8300/8700/A400/C400
FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A250/500f/C250
Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI
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
ONTAP 9
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
OnCommand Workflow Automation
Global File Cache

Official fixes

FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - 8300/8700/A400/C400 — vendor fix ↗
FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A250/500f/C250 — vendor fix ↗
Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI — vendor fix ↗
NetApp Manageability SDK — vendor fix ↗
OnCommand Workflow Automation — 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.openssl.org/news/secadv/20240125.txt ↗

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.