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NTAP-20250411-0004 — CVE-2024-11168 Python Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2025-04-11 · Updated 2025-09-30 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: LOW 3.7 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20250411-0004 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: 3.7

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-11168 — LOW · CVSS 3.7 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-11168 — The urllib.parse.urlsplit() and urlparse() functions improperly validated bracketed hosts (`[]`), allowing hosts that weren't IPv6 or IPvFuture. This behavior was not conformant to RFC 3986 and potentially enabled SSRF if a URL is processed by more than one URL parser.

Impact

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

Affected products

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

Official fixes

ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP Mediator — vendor fix ↗

References

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/XPWB6XVZ5G5KGEI63M4AWLIEUF ↗

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.