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NTAP-20250418-0006 — CVE-2024-7254 MySQL Connector/J Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2025-04-18 · Updated 2025-05-16 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product

Official advisory: NTAP-20250418-0006 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · OnCommand family | other NetApp product | highest CVSS: 7.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2024-7254 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2024-7254 — Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker.

Impact

Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Connectors.

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
OnCommand Insight

References

What to do

Compare your installed product and version against the affected list above and the official advisory's affected-versions table.
Apply the fixed release named in the official advisory, or the documented workaround if no fix ships yet.
Limit management-plane exposure (BMC/management interfaces, web UIs, SNMP) until patched.
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