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NTAP-20240411-0001 — CVE-2024-21989 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Published 2024-04-11 · Updated 2024-04-11 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: HIGH 8.1 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20240411-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 8.1

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-21989 — HIGH · CVSS 8.1 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-21989 — ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility versions 9.12.1.x, 9.13.1.x and 9.14.1.x are susceptible to a vulnerability which when successfully exploited could allow a read-only user to escalate their privileges.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a read-only user to escalate their privileges and modify or delete Deploy-managed data.

Affected products

ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Official fixes

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.