CVE-2022-26488: Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Python before 3.10.3 on Windows, local users can gain privileges because the search path is inadequately secured. The installer may allow a local attacker to add user-writable directories to the system search path. To exploit, an administrator must have installed Python for all users and enabled PATH entries. A non-administrative user can trigger a repair that incorrectly adds user-writable paths into PATH, enabling search-path hijacking of other users and system services. This affects Python (CPython) through 3.7.12, 3.8.x through 3.8.12, 3.9.x through 3.9.10, and 3.10.x through 3.10.2.

Affected products

• Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility: affected versions not specified
• Python Python: up to and including 3.7.12; from 3.8.0, up to and including 3.8.12; from 3.9.0, up to and including 3.9.10; from 3.10.0, up to and including 3.10.2; version 3.11.0 only

Published 2022-03-10. Last modified 2026-10-08.