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NTAP-20250314-0002 — CVE-2025-0938 Python Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2025-03-14 · Updated 2026-02-06 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.3 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20250314-0002 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: 6.3

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2025-0938 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.3 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2025-0938 — The Python standard library functions `urllib.parse.urlsplit` and `urlparse` accepted domain names that included square brackets which isn't valid according to RFC 3986. Square brackets are only meant to be used as delimiters for specifying IPv6 and IPvFuture hosts in URLs. This could result in differential parsing across the Python URL parser and other specification-compliant URL parsers.

Impact

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

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI
NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
ONTAP 9
ONTAP Mediator

Official fixes

Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows — vendor fix ↗
Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP Mediator — 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.