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NTAP-20250110-0003 — CVE-2024-10979 PostgreSQL Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2025-01-10 · Updated 2025-10-17 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 8.8 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20250110-0003 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Brocade SAN firmware · ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 8.8

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-10979 — HIGH · CVSS 8.8 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-10979 — Incorrect control of environment variables in PostgreSQL PL/Perl allows an unprivileged database user to change sensitive process environment variables (e.g. PATH). That often suffices to enable arbitrary code execution, even if the attacker lacks a database server operating system user. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17, and 12.21 are affected.

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 SAN Navigator (SANnav)
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10

Official fixes

ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10 — vendor fix ↗

References

https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2024-10979/ ↗

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.