CVE-2016-6904 Plain Text Authentication vulnerability in VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP

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.

Advisory ID: NTAP-20171208-0002 Version: 1.0 Last updated: 12/08/2017 Status: Final. CVEs: CVE-2016-6904

Overview

Summary

Versions of VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP prior to 7.0P1 contain a web server that accepts plain text authentication. This could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain authentication credentials.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to the disclosure of authentication credentials to an unauthenticated attacker.

Vulnerability Scoring Details

CVE	Score	Vector
CVE-2016-6904	5.9 (MEDIUM)	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploitation and Public Announcements

NetApp is aware of public discussion of this vulnerability.

Affected Products

NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 9.7 and above

Products Not Affected

7-Mode Transition Tool
ATTO FibreBridge - 6500N
Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
Cloud Manager
Clustered Data ONTAP
Clustered Data ONTAP Antivirus Connector
E-Series SANtricity Storage Manager
E-Series SANtricity Web Services (REST API) for Web Services Proxy
FAS/AFF BIOS
Host Utilities - SAN for Linux
Host Utilities - SAN for Windows
MetroCluster Tiebreaker for clustered Data ONTAP
NetApp Cloud Backup OST Plug-in (formerly AltaVault OST Plug-in)
NetApp Manageability SDK
NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI
NetApp SANtricity SMI-S Provider
NetApp SMI-S Provider
NetApp SolidFire, Enterprise SDS & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
NetApp Storage Encryption
OnCommand Insight
OnCommand Workflow Automation
Open Systems SnapVault Agent
Service Processor
Single Mailbox Recovery
Snap Creator Framework
SnapCenter
SnapDrive for Unix
SnapManager for Hyper-V
SnapManager for Oracle
SnapManager for SAP
Storage Services Connector
StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
System Manager 9.x

Remediation

Software Versions and Fixes

NetApp's currently available patches are listed below.

Product	First Fixed in Release
NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 9.7 and above	https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/vasa_cdot/7.1/ https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/vasa_cdot/7.0P1/

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)

Revision History

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-20171208-0002

Revision History

Revision #	Date	Comments
1.0	20171208	Initial Public Release, Final status

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