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NTAP-20240812-0001 — CVE-2020-15999 Freetype Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2024-08-12 · Updated 2024-08-12 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: CRITICAL 9.6 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20240812-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 9.6

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2020-15999 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.6 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2020-15999 — Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Impact

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

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.