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NTAP-20241115-0005 — CVE-2024-38428 GNU Wget Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2024-11-15 · Updated 2026-10-08 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: CRITICAL 9.1 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20241115-0005 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Brocade SAN firmware · Baseboard management controllers · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 9.1

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-38428 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-38428 — url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.

Impact

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

Affected products

Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A250/500f/C250
NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10

Official fixes

ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10 — vendor fix ↗

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.