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NTAP-20240920-0003 — CVE-2024-38809 Spring Framework Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2024-09-20 · Updated 2025-09-30 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 5.3 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20240920-0003 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 5.3

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-38809 — MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-38809 — Applications that parse ETags from "If-Match" or "If-None-Match" request headers are vulnerable to DoS attack. Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version. Users of older, unsupported versions could enforce a size limit on "If-Match" and "If-None-Match" headers, e.g. through a Filter.

Impact

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 9
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10

Official fixes

Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux — vendor fix ↗
Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows — vendor fix ↗
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38809 ↗

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.