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NTAP-20240411-0002 — CVE-2024-21990 Default Privileged Account Credentials Vulnerability in ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Published 2024-04-11 · Updated 2024-04-11 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Not public · Severity: MEDIUM 5.4 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20240411-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 5.4

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-21990 — MEDIUM · CVSS 5.4 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-21990 — ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility versions 9.12.1.x, 9.13.1.x and 9.14.1.x contain hard-coded credentials that could allow an attacker to view Deploy configuration information and modify the account credentials.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in unauthorized information disclosure of Deploy configuration data or modification of the account credentials.

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.