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NTAP-20250912-0012 — CVE-2025-8885 Bouncy Castle Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2025-09-12 · Updated 2026-08-21 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public
Official advisory: NTAP-20250912-0012 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2025-8885 — MEDIUM CVSS 6.3 · site index
Affected products
- Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
- Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
- Data Infrastructure Insights and Data Secure Storage Workload Security Agent
- ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10
- ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 9
What to do
- Check your ONTAP versions against the official advisory's affected-versions table.
- 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).
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