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NTAP-20260204-0004 — CVE-2026-22796 OpenSSL Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2026-02-04 · Updated 2026-10-07 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 5.3 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20260204-0004 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Brocade SAN firmware · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · NetApp Console / BlueXP · Other NetApp products · ONTAP · Active IQ Unified Manager · SnapCenter | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 5.3

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2026-22796 — MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2026-22796 — Issue summary: A type confusion vulnerability exists in the signature verification of signed PKCS#7 data where an ASN1_TYPE union member is accessed without first validating the type, causing an invalid or NULL pointer dereference when processing malformed PKCS#7 data. Impact summary: An application performing signature verification of PKCS#7 data or calling directly the PKCS7_digest_from_attributes() function can be caused to dereference an invalid or NULL pointer when reading, resulting in a Denial of Service. The function PKCS7_digest_from_attributes() accesses the message digest attribute value without validating its type. When the type is not V_ASN1_OCTET_STRING, this results in accessing invalid memory through the ASN1_TYPE union, causing a crash. Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to provide a malformed signed PKCS#7 to an application that verifies it. The impact of the exploit is just a Denial of Service, the PKCS7 API is legacy and applications should be using the CMS API instead. For these reasons the issue was assessed as Low severity. The FIPS modules in 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the PKCS#7 parsing implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are vulnerable to this issue.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS). <br><br> NetApp Manageability SDK:<br> OpenSSL was removed in 9.8P8.

Affected products

Brocade SAN Navigator (SANnav)
Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI
NetApp Console Agent Container (adc)
NetApp Console Agent Container (cbs)
NetApp Console Agent Container (cbs-backend)
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
NetApp LOADER 8.x
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
Active IQ Config Advisor
Active IQ OneCollect
Cloud Volumes ONTAP Mediator
Global File Cache

References

https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260127.txt ↗

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.