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NTAP-20250321-0006 — CVE-2025-24928 Libxml2 Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2025-03-21 · Updated 2026-10-09 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.8 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · Other NetApp products · ONTAP · SnapManager / Snap utilities · NetApp Console / BlueXP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.8
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2025-24928 — HIGH · CVSS 7.8 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2025-24928 — libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements in valid.c. To exploit this, DTD validation must occur for an untrusted document or untrusted DTD. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2017-9047.
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information, addition or modification of data, or Denial of Service (DoS). <br><br> ONTAP 9:<br> Exploitable only by authorized users.
Affected products
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
- NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H300S/H500S/H700S/H410S
- NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H410C
- NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
- NetApp Manageability SDK
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
- ONTAP 9
- SnapManager for Hyper-V
- FAS/AFF BIOS - A900/9500
- NetApp Console Agent OVA
- NetApp SMI-S Provider
Official fixes
- NetApp Manageability SDK — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
- ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
References
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.
Related reading
- Common ONTAP problems (FAQ) — plain-language symptoms and fixes
- ONTAP security hardening — baseline lockdown guidance
- Ransomware protection on ONTAP — SnapLock, SnapMirror vaulting, Anomaly Detection
- ONTAP error messages index — EMS/WAFL/NFS/SnapMirror messages
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2025