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NTAP-20250131-0010 — CVE-2024-47554 Apache Commons IO Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2025-01-31 · Updated 2025-09-30 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 4.3 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20250131-0010 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · E-Series / SANtricity · NetApp Console / BlueXP · ONTAP · SnapCenter | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 4.3

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-47554 — MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-47554 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Commons IO. The org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader class may excessively consume CPU resources when processing maliciously crafted input. This issue affects Apache Commons IO: from 2.0 before 2.14.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.14.0 or later, which fixes the issue.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
E-Series SANtricity Unified Manager and Web Services Proxy
NetApp BlueXP
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 9
SANtricity Storage Plugin for vCenter
SnapCenter

Official fixes

E-Series SANtricity Unified Manager and Web Services Proxy — vendor fix ↗
NetApp BlueXP — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10 — vendor fix ↗
SANtricity Storage Plugin for vCenter — vendor fix ↗
SnapCenter — vendor fix ↗

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/6ozr91rr9cj5lm0zyhv30bsp317hk5z1 ↗

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.