CVE-2020-8581 Missing authorization in Clustered Data ONTAP

What is CVE-2020-8581?

CVE-2020-8581 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Netapp Clustered Data Ontap, published on 19 Jan 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Clustered Data ONTAP versions prior to 9.3P20 and 9.5 are susceptible to a vulnerability which could allow an authenticated but unauthorized attacker to overwrite arbitrary data when VMware vStorage support is enabled.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8581?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Netapp Clustered Data Ontap.

How do I fix CVE-2020-8581?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8581 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-2020-8581 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8581 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-8hcf-r5xh-7r38.