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NTAP-20241108-0009 — CVE-2024-37371 MIT Kerberos 5 Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2024-11-08 · Updated 2026-10-06 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: CRITICAL 9.1 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20241108-0009 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 9.1

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-37371 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-37371 — In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can cause invalid memory reads during GSS message token handling by sending message tokens with invalid length fields.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information or Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610C
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H615C
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 9
ONTAP 9

Official fixes

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere — vendor fix ↗
Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗

References

https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/ ↗

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.