What is CVE-2017-7947?

CVE-2017-7947 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NetApp Clustered Data Ontap, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2017-7947?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in NetApp Clustered Data Ontap

CVE-2017-7947

NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP before 8.3.2P11, 9.0 before P4, and 9.1 before P5 allow attackers to obtain sensitive password information by leveraging logging of passwords entered non-interactively on the command line.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2017-07-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-07.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 69.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

NetApp Clustered Data Ontap — versions 8.3.2, 9.0, 9.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

kb.netapp.com/support/s/article/NTAP-20170630-0001 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7947?: CVE-2017-7947 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NetApp Clustered Data Ontap, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2017-7947?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.