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NTAP-20250725-0009 — CVE-2025-32988 GNUTLS Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2025-07-25 · Updated 2026-09-16 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20250725-0009 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 · Other NetApp products · NetApp Console / BlueXP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2025-32988 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2025-32988 — A flaw was found in GnuTLS. A double-free vulnerability exists in GnuTLS due to incorrect ownership handling in the export logic of Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries containing an otherName. If the type-id OID is invalid or malformed, GnuTLS will call asn1_delete_structure() on an ASN.1 node it does not own, leading to a double-free condition when the parent function or caller later attempts to free the same structure. This vulnerability can be triggered using only public GnuTLS APIs and may result in denial of service or memory corruption, depending on allocator behavior.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to addition or modification of data, Denial of Service (DoS). <br><br> ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility:<br> Affected in only 9.15.1 and 9.16.1.

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
FAS/AFF BIOS - A900/9500
NetApp Console Agent OVA
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10

References

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2025-July/004883.html ↗

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.