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NTAP-20241101-0009 — CVE-2024-21204 MySQL Server Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2024-11-01 · Updated 2025-06-10 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20241101-0009 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
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server.
Affected products
- Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
- ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10
Official fixes
- Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows — vendor fix ↗
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
References
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/ ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2024verbose.html#MSQL ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2024.html#AppendixMSQL ↗
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