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NTAP-20260617-0011 — CVE-2026-42771 OpenSSL Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2026-06-17 · Updated 2026-10-06 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 6.2 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20260617-0011 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: NetApp Console / BlueXP · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP · Brocade SAN firmware · Other NetApp products | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 6.2

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2026-42771 — MEDIUM · CVSS 6.2 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2026-42771 — Issue summary: When the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_email is called by an application to validate a crafted e-mail address, such as during S/MIME message validation, an out of bounds read can happen. Impact summary: This out of bounds read will not directly exfiltrate the data read to the attacker so the most likely result is a crash and a Denial of Service. An internal helper function called from X509_VERIFY_PARAM_[set|add]_email() used a wrong length when validating the local part of an email address. This could cause the 64 octet limit on the local part of an email address to be not enforced, or cause an out of bound read and potentially a crash. The bug is reachable via S-MIME validation with a crafted From: address supplied in an email message that can potentially cause a crash. No FIPS modules are affected by this issue as the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

NetApp Console Agent Container (adc)
NetApp Console Agent Container (cbs)
NetApp Console Agent Container (cbs-backend)
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
Brocade SAN Navigator (SANnav)
Cloud Volumes ONTAP Mediator
Global File Cache
NetApp Console Agent Container (alert-service-client)
NetApp Console Agent Container (alertmanager)
NetApp Console Agent Container (cadvisor)

References

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.