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NTAP-20260204-0006 — CVE-2025-69420 OpenSSL Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2026-02-04 · Updated 2026-10-07 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20260204-0006 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 · ONTAP · Active IQ Unified Manager · Other NetApp products  |  ONTAP-relevant  |  highest CVSS: 7.5

CVEs in this advisory

What the CVE records say

CVE-2025-69420 — Issue summary: A type confusion vulnerability exists in the TimeStamp Response verification code where an ASN1_TYPE union member is accessed without first validating the type, causing an invalid or NULL pointer dereference when processing a malformed TimeStamp Response file. Impact summary: An application calling TS_RESP_verify_response() with a malformed TimeStamp Response can be caused to dereference an invalid or NULL pointer when reading, resulting in a Denial of Service. The functions ossl_ess_get_signing_cert() and ossl_ess_get_signing_cert_v2() access the signing cert attribute value without validating its type. When the type is not V_ASN1_SEQUENCE, this results in accessing invalid memory through the ASN1_TYPE union, causing a crash. Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to provide a malformed TimeStamp Response to an application that verifies timestamp responses. The TimeStamp protocol (RFC 3161) is not widely used and the impact of the exploit is just a Denial of Service. 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 TimeStamp Response implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0 and 1.1.1 are vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL 1.0.2 is not affected by 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

Official fixes

References

What to do

  1. 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.
  2. If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
  3. If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
  4. Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.

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