CVE-2018-5498 Denial of service in Clustered Data ONTAP

What is CVE-2018-5498?

CVE-2018-5498 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netapp Clustered Data Ontap, published on 1 Feb 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Clustered Data ONTAP versions 9.0 through 9.4 are susceptible to a vulnerability which allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) in NFS and SMB environments. Exploitation of this vulnerability will allow a remote authenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) on affected versions of clustered Data ONTAP configured for multiprotocol access.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5498?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Netapp Clustered Data Ontap.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5498?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-5498 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-2018-5498 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5498 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-f3rh-3xh6-39mj.