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NTAP-20260930-0004 — CVE-2026-19667 ISC BIND Vulnerability in NetApp Products
Published 2026-09-30 · Updated 2026-10-02 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes
Product family: Active IQ Unified Manager · Brocade SAN firmware · ONTAP · Other NetApp products · Baseboard management controllers · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · SnapCenter | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.5
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2026-19667 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index
What the CVE records say
CVE-2026-19667 — If an attacker-controlled authoritative server can produce a negative answer that is exactly 65536 bytes, then a flaw in `named` results in a negative cache entry of 0 bytes. When this entry is subsequently read, `named` aborts. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0 through 9.20.27, 9.21.0 through 9.21.25, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.18.50-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.27-S1.
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).
Affected products
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
- Brocade SAN Navigator (SANnav)
- Cloud Volumes ONTAP Mediator
- FAS/AFF BIOS - A900/9500
- FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A250/500f/C250
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere
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.
Related reading
- Common ONTAP problems (FAQ) — plain-language symptoms and fixes
- ONTAP security hardening — baseline lockdown guidance
- Ransomware protection on ONTAP — SnapLock, SnapMirror vaulting, Anomaly Detection
- ONTAP error messages index — EMS/WAFL/NFS/SnapMirror messages
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2026