CVE-2017-5703 Intel SPI Flash Denial of Service Vulnerability in NetApp Products

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Summary

Multiple NetApp products incorporate Intel CPUs and their associated chipsets. Some Intel CPUs allow unsafe opcodes which a local attacker could use to alter the behavior of the SPI Flash memory, leading a Denial of Service (DoS).

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service(DoS).

Vulnerability Scoring Details

CVE Score Vector
CVE-2017-5703 7.9 (HIGH) CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Exploitation and Public Announcements

NetApp is aware of public discussion of this vulnerability.

References

Affected Products

  • FAS/AFF BIOS

Products Not Affected

  • 7-Mode Transition Tool
  • ATTO FibreBridge - 6500N
  • Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
  • Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
  • Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
  • Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
  • Cloud Manager
  • Clustered Data ONTAP
  • Clustered Data ONTAP Antivirus Connector
  • E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
  • E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 8.x
  • E-Series SANtricity Storage Manager
  • E-Series SANtricity Web Services (REST API) for Web Services Proxy
  • Element Plug-in for vCenter Server
  • FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - A320/C190/A220/FAS2720/FAS2750/A800
  • Host Utilities - SAN for Linux
  • Host Utilities - SAN for Windows
  • MetroCluster Tiebreaker for clustered Data ONTAP
  • NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
  • NetApp Cloud Backup OST Plug-in (formerly AltaVault OST Plug-in)
  • NetApp Converged Systems Advisor Agent
  • NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
  • NetApp HCI Compute Node BIOS
  • NetApp Manageability SDK
  • NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI
  • NetApp SANtricity SMI-S Provider
  • NetApp SMI-S Provider
  • NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
  • NetApp SolidFire, Enterprise SDS & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
  • NetApp SteelStore Cloud Integrated Storage
  • NetApp Storage Encryption
  • ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
  • 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)
  • StorageGRID Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
  • StorageGRID9 (9.x and prior)
  • System Manager 9.x

Software Versions and Fixes

NetApp's currently available patches are listed below.


Product First Fixed in Release
FAS/AFF BIOS https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/downloads/firmware/system-firmware-diagnostics

First fixed in BIOS versions 9.7, 10.5, 11.5, 12.3, and 13.3 under bug 1189483 and bundled into ONTAP version 9.6.

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-20180924-0004

Revision History

Revision # Date Comments
1.0 20180924 Initial Public Release
2.0 20181004 NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault) and NetApp SteelStore Cloud Integrated Storage moved to Products Not Affected
3.0 20181022 FAS/AFF System Firmware moved to Affected Products
4.0 20191119 FAS/AFF System Firmware added to Software Versions and Fixes, Final status

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