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NTAP-20260320-0006 — CVE-2025-9714 Libxml2 Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2026-03-20 · Updated 2026-09-25 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.2 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20260320-0006 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP · SnapManager / Snap utilities · NetApp Console / BlueXP · Other NetApp products · SolidFire / NetApp HCI  |  ONTAP-relevant  |  highest CVSS: 6.2

CVEs in this advisory

What the CVE records say

CVE-2025-9714 — Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` were resetting recursion depth to zero before making potentially recursive calls. When such functions were called recursively this could allow for uncontrolled recursion and lead to a stack overflow. These functions now preserve recursion depth across recursive calls, allowing recursion depth to be controlled.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS). <br><br> ONTAP 9:<br> Not Affected in versions 9.14.1 and higher.

Affected products

Official fixes

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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