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NTAP-20250605-0003 — CVE-2025-32415 Libxml2 Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2025-06-05 · Updated 2026-10-09 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: LOW 2.9 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20250605-0003 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 · Other NetApp products · ONTAP · SnapManager / Snap utilities | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 2.9
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2025-32415 — LOW · CVSS 2.9 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2025-32415 — In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables in xmlschemas.c has a heap-based buffer under-read. To exploit this, a crafted XML document must be validated against an XML schema with certain identity constraints, or a crafted XML schema must be used.
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).
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
- ONTAP 9
- SnapManager for Hyper-V
- FAS/AFF BIOS - A900/9500
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 ↗
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