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NTAP-20240731-0004 — CVE-2024-0760 ISC BIND Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2024-07-31 · Updated 2026-03-05 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20240731-0004 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

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-0760 — A malicious client can send many DNS messages over TCP, potentially causing the server to become unstable while the attack is in progress. The server may recover after the attack ceases. Use of ACLs will not mitigate the attack. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.1 through 9.18.27, 9.19.0 through 9.19.24, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.27-S1.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS). <br><br> ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP):<br> Affected in versions 9.14.1 and higher when configured for DNS load balancing.

Affected products

Official fixes

References

What to do

  1. 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.
  2. If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
  3. If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
  4. Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.

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