CVE-2018-5490 Missing authorization in Clustered Data ONTAP

What is CVE-2018-5490?

CVE-2018-5490 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Netapp Clustered Data Ontap, published on 3 Aug 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Read-Only export policy rules are not correctly enforced in Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3 Release Candidate versions and therefore may allow more than "read-only" access from authenticated SMBv2 and SMBv3 clients. This behavior has been resolved in the GA release. Customers running prior release candidates (RCs) are requested to update their systems to the NetApp Data ONTAP 8.3 GA release.

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5490?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Netapp Clustered Data Ontap.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5490?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-5490 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2018-5490 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5490 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-wq6r-8qf6-65vc.