CVE-2020-8579 Denial of service in clustered Data ONTAP

What is CVE-2020-8579?

CVE-2020-8579 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netapp Clustered Data Ontap, published on 27 Oct 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Clustered Data ONTAP versions 9.7 through 9.7P7 are susceptible to a vulnerability which allows an attacker with access to an intercluster LIF to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8579?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Netapp Clustered Data Ontap.

How do I fix CVE-2020-8579?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8579 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-2020-8579 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8579 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-ccrg-h7p2-67q4.