Default Privileged Account Credentials Vulnerability in ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

published 2024-04-17 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-19596

cvss: 5.4; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits: 0; none known

ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility versions 9.12.1.x, 9.13.1.x and 9.14.1.x contain hard-coded credentials that could allow an attacker to view Deploy configuration information and modify the account credentials.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-04-23)

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
netapp clustered_data_ontap

Classification

Weakness

CWE-259 Use of Hard-coded Password
CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

security.netapp.com /advisory/ntap-20240411-0002/
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-21990
NVD CVE-2024-21990

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Summary