CVE-2017-5988 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-5988?

CVE-2017-5988 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netapp Clustered Data Ontap, published on 10 Apr 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.1 through 9.1P1, when NFS or SMB is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-5988?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Netapp Clustered Data Ontap.

How do I fix CVE-2017-5988?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-5988 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-2017-5988 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5988 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Netapp Clustered Data Ontap

• CVE-2015-7853 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-9119 Denial of service in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-7480 Deserialization in PHP before 7.0.12 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-5340 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-11147 Information disclosure in n/a Critical 9.1

All Netapp Clustered Data Ontap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-p5vq-hvjq-p3g6.