Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fabric OS CLI prior to Brocade Fabric OS versions 9.1.0, 9.0.1e, 8.2.3c, and 8.2.0cbn5 could allow a local authenticated user to escalate its privilege to root using switch commands “supportlink”, “firmwaredownload”, “portcfgupload, license, and “fosexec”. Refer to the vendor advisory BSA-2022-2084 for additional details.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information, addition or modification of data, or Denial of Service (DoS).

Vulnerability Scoring Details

Exploitation and Public Announcements

NetApp is aware of public discussion of this vulnerability.

References

• https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2022-2084

Affected Products

• Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware

Products Not Affected

• 7-Mode Transition Tool
• AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A700s
• ATTO FibreBridge - 7500N
• ATTO FibreBridge - 7600N
• Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
• Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
• Active IQ mobile app
• Astra Control Center
• Astra Control Center - NetApp Kubernetes Monitoring Operator
• Astra Trident
• Astra Trident Autosupport
• BeeGFS CSI Driver
• Brocade SAN Navigator (SANnav)
• Cloud Data Sense
• Cloud Insights Acquisition Unit
• Cloud Insights Telegraf Agent
• Cloud Secure Agent
• Cloud Volumes ONTAP Mediator
• E-Series BIOS
• E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
• E-Series SANtricity Storage Manager
• E-Series SANtricity Unified Manager and Web Services Proxy
• Element .NET SDK
• Element HealthTools
• Element JAVA SDK
• Element Plug-in for vCenter Server
• Element Powershell Tools
• Element Python SDK
• FAS/AFF BIOS - 2554/2552/2520
• FAS/AFF BIOS - 8080/8060/8040/8020
• FAS/AFF BIOS - 8300/8700/A400
• FAS/AFF BIOS - A250/500f
• FAS/AFF BIOS - A300/8200/A200/2650/2620/C190/A220/2720/2750
• FAS/AFF BIOS - A320
• FAS/AFF BIOS - A700/9000
• FAS/AFF BIOS - A700s
• FAS/AFF BIOS - A800
• FAS/AFF BIOS - A900/9500
• FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - 8300/8700/A400
• FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A250/500f
• FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A320/C190/A220/FAS2720/FAS2750/A800
• FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A900/9500
• FAS/AFF Service Processor - 2554/2552/2520
• FAS/AFF Service Processor - 8080/8060/8040/8020
• FAS/AFF Service Processor - A300/8200/A200/2650/2620
• FAS/AFF Service Processor - A700/9000
• Global File Cache
• Host Utilities - SAN for Linux
• Host Utilities - SAN for Windows
• Interoperability Matrix Tool
• Inventory Collect Tool
• Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI
• MetroCluster Tiebreaker for clustered Data ONTAP
• Multipath I/O (SANtricity DSM for Windows MPIO)
• NetApp BlueXP
• NetApp Cloud Backup OST Plug-in (formerly AltaVault OST Plug-in)
• NetApp Converged Systems Advisor Agent
• NetApp E-Series BeeGFS Collection
• NetApp E-Series Host Collection
• NetApp E-Series Performance Analyzer
• NetApp E-Series SANtricity Collection
• NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H300S/H500S/H700S/H410S
• NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H410C
• NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610C
• NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H610S
• NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H615C
• NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
• NetApp HCI Compute Node BIOS
• NetApp HCI Storage Node BIOS
• NetApp Kubernetes Monitoring Operator
• NetApp Manageability SDK
• NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI
• NetApp SMI-S Provider
• NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
• NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
• NetApp SolidFire Plug-in for vRealize Orchestrator (SolidFire vRO)
• NetApp Virtual Desktop Service (VDS)
• NetApp XCP NFS
• NetApp XCP SMB
• ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP)
• ONTAP Antivirus Connector
• ONTAP Mediator
• ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
• ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere
• OnCommand Insight
• OnCommand Workflow Automation
• SANtricity Storage Plugin for vCenter
• SAS Firmware
• SRA Plugin for Linux
• SRA Plugin for Windows
• Single Mailbox Recovery
• Snap Creator Framework
• SnapCenter
• SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere
• SnapManager for Hyper-V
• SolidFire Storage Replication Adapter
• Spot PC
• Storage Services Connector
• StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
• StorageGRID BIOS SG1000/SG100
• StorageGRID BIOS SG5660/SG5612/SG5760/SG5712
• StorageGRID BIOS SG6060/SGF6024
• StorageGRID Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
• System Manager 9.x

Software Versions and Fixes

NetApp's currently available patches are listed below.

Workarounds

None at this time.

Obtaining Software Fixes

Software fixes will be made available through the NetApp Support website in the Software Download section.

https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/downloads/

Customers who do not have access to the Support website should contact Technical Support at the number below to obtain the patches.

Contact Information

Check http://mysupport.netapp.com for further updates.
For questions, contact NetApp at:

Technical Support
mysupport.netapp.com
1 888 4 NETAPP (1 888 463 8277) (U.S. and Canada)
+00 800 44 638277 (EMEA/Europe)
+800 800 80 800 (Asia/Pacific)

Status of This Notice

Final.

This advisory should be considered the single source of current, up-to-date, authorized and accurate information from NetApp regarding Full Support products and versions.

This advisory is posted at the following link:
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/NTAP-20230127-0007

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