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NTAP-20241101-0001 — CVE-2024-9143 OpenSSL Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2024-11-01 · Updated 2026-06-08 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 4.3 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20241101-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · Brocade SAN firmware · Baseboard management controllers · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP · SnapManager / Snap utilities · Other NetApp products | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 4.3

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-9143 — MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-9143 — Issue summary: Use of the low-level GF(2^m) elliptic curve APIs with untrusted explicit values for the field polynomial can lead to out-of-bounds memory reads or writes. Impact summary: Out of bound memory writes can lead to an application crash or even a possibility of a remote code execution, however, in all the protocols involving Elliptic Curve Cryptography that we're aware of, either only "named curves" are supported, or, if explicit curve parameters are supported, they specify an X9.62 encoding of binary (GF(2^m)) curves that can't represent problematic input values. Thus the likelihood of existence of a vulnerable application is low. In particular, the X9.62 encoding is used for ECC keys in X.509 certificates, so problematic inputs cannot occur in the context of processing X.509 certificates. Any problematic use-cases would have to be using an "exotic" curve encoding. The affected APIs include: EC_GROUP_new_curve_GF2m(), EC_GROUP_new_from_params(), and various supporting BN_GF2m_*() functions. Applications working with "exotic" explicit binary (GF(2^m)) curve parameters, that make it possible to represent invalid field polynomials with a zero constant term, via the above or similar APIs, may terminate abruptly as a result of reading or writing outside of array bounds. Remote code execution cannot easily be ruled out. The FIPS modules in 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.

Impact

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

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A250/500f/C250
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H300S/H500S/H700S/H410S
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H410C
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610C
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H615C
NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 9

Official fixes

ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗

References

https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20241016.txt ↗

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.