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NTAP-20240920-0008 — CVE-2024-45288 FreeBSD Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2024-09-20 · Updated 2025-01-27 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 8.4 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20240920-0008 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 8.4
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2024-45288 — HIGH · CVSS 8.4 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2024-45288 — A missing null-termination character in the last element of an nvlist array string can lead to writing outside the allocated buffer.
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of information, addition or modification data, or Denial of Service(DoS).
Affected products
- ONTAP 9
Official fixes
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
References
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.
Related reading
- Common ONTAP problems (FAQ) — plain-language symptoms and fixes
- ONTAP security hardening — baseline lockdown guidance
- Ransomware protection on ONTAP — SnapLock, SnapMirror vaulting, Anomaly Detection
- ONTAP error messages index — EMS/WAFL/NFS/SnapMirror messages
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2024