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NTAP-20261006-0012 — CVE-2026-54875 OpenSSL Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2026-10-06 · Updated 2026-10-06 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: LOW 3.7 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20261006-0012 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: SolidFire / NetApp HCI · Other NetApp products · Baseboard management controllers · Active IQ Unified Manager · Brocade SAN firmware · ONTAP · NetApp Console / BlueXP · SnapCenter | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 3.7

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2026-54875 — LOW · CVSS 3.7 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2026-54875 — Issue summary: A non-constant-time optimized implementation of scalar point multiplication is used for SM2 private key operations on ARM64 and RISC-V platforms. Impact summary: An attacker able to measure the time taken by, or to observe the cache-line access pattern of SM2 signing or decryption on an affected platform can learn information about the secret scalar. CWE: CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy Description: On ARM64 and RISC-V processors, the SM2 curve uses an optimized scalar multiplication implementation whose conditional branches and table look ups are chosen according to the bits of the secret scalar. The execution time and the cache-access pattern therefore depend on the long-term private key (during SM2 decryption) or the per-signature nonce (during SM2 signature generation), forming a timing and cache side-channel. FIPS Impact: no SM2 is not a FIPS algorithm and the optimized SM2 implementation is not part of the FIPS module. OpenSSL 4.0, 3.6, 3.5 and 3.4 are vulnerable to this issue on AArch64 and RISC-V. OpenSSL 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue. OpenSSL 4.0 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 4.0.3. OpenSSL 3.6 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.6.5. OpenSSL 3.5 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.5.9. OpenSSL 3.4 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.4.8. This issue was reported on 2 May 2026 by Abhinav Agarwal. It was independently reported on 6 June 2026 by Feng Xue. The fix was developed by Igor Ustinov. -- cut (non-publishing metadata for internal use) -- Reported by: Abhinav Agarwal, Feng Xue Fixed by: Igor Ustinov

Impact

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

Affected products

NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
AFF BIOS - A700s
AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A700s
AFF/ASA/FAS Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A1K/A90/A70/C80/FAS90/FAS70
AFF/ASA/FAS Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A50/A30/A20/C60/C30/FAS50
Active IQ Config Advisor
Active IQ OneCollect
Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
Brocade SAN Navigator (SANnav)
Cloud Volumes ONTAP Mediator
FAS/AFF BIOS - 8300/8700/A400/C400
FAS/AFF BIOS - A320

References

https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.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.