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NTAP-20241206-0001 — CVE-2024-39689 Certifi Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2024-12-06 · Updated 2026-03-05 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20241206-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: SolidFire / NetApp HCI · Other NetApp products · ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-39689 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-39689 — Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi starting in 2021.5.30 and prior to 2024.7.4 recognized root certificates from `GLOBALTRUST`. Certifi 2024.7.04 removes root certificates from `GLOBALTRUST` from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from Mozilla's trust store. `GLOBALTRUST`'s root certificates are being removed pursuant to an investigation which identified "long-running and unresolved compliance issues."

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to addition or modification of data.

Affected products

Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI
NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
NetApp XCP NFS
NetApp XCP SMB
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Official fixes

Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI — vendor fix ↗

References

https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi/security/advisories/GHSA-248v-346w-9cwc ↗

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.