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Network Appliance Data ONTAP iSCSI Authentication Bypass
Secunia Advisory: SA17321
Release Date: 2005-10-25
Popularity: 6,876 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:NetApp Data ONTAP 7.x
Network Appliance Data ONTAP 6.x

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Description:
Thomas H. Ptacek has reported a vulnerability in Network Appliance Data ONTAP, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is cause due to an error in the handling of iSCSI authentication requests. This can be exploited to bypass authentication via a specially-crafted iSCSI client.

Successful exploitation allows the manipulation of data stored in iSCSI-mapped LUNs on affected Network Appliance Filers.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 6.4, 6.5, and 7.0.

Solution:
The vulnerability has reportedly been fixed in version 7.0.2.
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/software

Provided and/or discovered by:
Thomas H. Ptacek, Matasano Security.

Original Advisory:
http://www.matasano.com/advisories/netapp-iSCSI.txt


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