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NTAP-20260724-0004 — CVE-2026-44431 Urllib3 Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2026-07-24 · Updated 2026-08-19 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: MEDIUM 5.3 · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product

Official advisory: NTAP-20260724-0004 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: Other NetApp products · SolidFire / NetApp HCI | other NetApp product | highest CVSS: 5.3

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2026-44431 — MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2026-44431 — urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 1.23 to before 2.7.0, cross-origin redirects followed from the low-level API via ProxyManager.connection_from_url().urlopen(..., assert_same_host=False) still forward these sensitive headers. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.0.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information.

Affected products

NetApp Data Classification
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
NetApp XCP NFS
NetApp XCP SMB

References

https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-qccp-gfcp-xxvc ↗

What to do

Compare your installed product and version against the affected list above and the official advisory's affected-versions table.
Apply the fixed release named in the official advisory, or the documented workaround if no fix ships yet.
Limit management-plane exposure (BMC/management interfaces, web UIs, SNMP) until patched.
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