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NTAP-20260204-0013 — CVE-2025-15468 OpenSSL Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2026-02-04 · Updated 2026-10-07 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 5.9 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20260204-0013 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 · SnapCenter | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 5.9

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2025-15468 — MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2025-15468 — Issue summary: If an application using the SSL_CIPHER_find() function in a QUIC protocol client or server receives an unknown cipher suite from the peer, a NULL dereference occurs. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference leads to abnormal termination of the running process causing Denial of Service. Some applications call SSL_CIPHER_find() from the client_hello_cb callback on the cipher ID received from the peer. If this is done with an SSL object implementing the QUIC protocol, NULL pointer dereference will happen if the examined cipher ID is unknown or unsupported. As it is not very common to call this function in applications using the QUIC protocol and the worst outcome is Denial of Service, the issue was assessed as Low severity. The vulnerable code was introduced in the 3.2 version with the addition of the QUIC protocol support. The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.3 are not affected by this issue, as the QUIC implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.3 are vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are 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

Brocade SAN Navigator (SANnav)
Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI
NetApp Console Agent Container (cbs-backend)
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
NetApp LOADER 8.x
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
Cloud Volumes ONTAP Mediator
Global File Cache
NetApp Console Agent Container (alert-service-client)
NetApp Console Agent Container (alertmanager)
NetApp Console Agent Container (cadvisor)
NetApp Console Agent Container (certificates)

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.