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NTAP-20260204-0012 — CVE-2025-11187 OpenSSL Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2026-02-04 · Updated 2026-10-06 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.1 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20260204-0012 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 · Other NetApp products · ONTAP · NetApp Console / BlueXP · SnapCenter | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.1

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2025-11187 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.1 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2025-11187 — Issue summary: PBMAC1 parameters in PKCS#12 files are missing validation which can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, invalid pointer or NULL pointer dereference during MAC verification. Impact summary: The stack buffer overflow or NULL pointer dereference may cause a crash leading to Denial of Service for an application that parses untrusted PKCS#12 files. The buffer overflow may also potentially enable code execution depending on platform mitigations. When verifying a PKCS#12 file that uses PBMAC1 for the MAC, the PBKDF2 salt and keylength parameters from the file are used without validation. If the value of keylength exceeds the size of the fixed stack buffer used for the derived key (64 bytes), the key derivation will overflow the buffer. The overflow length is attacker-controlled. Also, if the salt parameter is not an OCTET STRING type this can lead to invalid or NULL pointer dereference. Exploiting this issue requires a user or application to process a maliciously crafted PKCS#12 file. It is uncommon to accept untrusted PKCS#12 files in applications as they are usually used to store private keys which are trusted by definition. For this reason the issue was assessed as Moderate severity. The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5 and 3.4 are not affected by this issue, as PKCS#12 processing is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5 and 3.4 are vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue as they do not support PBMAC1 in PKCS#12.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information, addition or modification of data, or Denial of Service (DoS). ONTAP 9: Affected only in 9.18.1. NetApp Manageability SDK: OpenSSL was removed in 9.8P8.

Affected products

Brocade SAN Navigator (SANnav)
Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
NetApp LOADER 8.x
ONTAP 9
Cloud Volumes ONTAP Mediator
Global File Cache
NetApp Console Agent Container (audit)
NetApp Console Agent OVA
NetApp SMI-S Provider
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)

Official fixes

ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP 9 — vendor fix ↗

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.