CVE-2017-12859 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-12859?

CVE-2017-12859 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Aug 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

NetApp Data ONTAP before 8.2.5, when operating in 7-Mode in NFS environments, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-12859?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Netapp Data Ontap.

How do I fix CVE-2017-12859?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-12859 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-12859 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-12859 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2008-3349 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-7746 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-5502 Weak cryptography in Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode Critical 9.1
• CVE-2016-5374 Missing authorization in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2015-8322 Code injection in n/a High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-78c4-hp78-4mrr.