CVE-2021-20021: SonicWall Email Security Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
SonicWall Email Security contains an improper privilege management vulnerability that allows an attacker to create an administrative account by sending a crafted HTTP request to the remote host. This vulnerability has known usage in a SonicWall Email Security exploit chain along with CVE-2021-20022 and CVE-2021-20023 to achieve privilege escalation. Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
· high severity · unattributed attribution
Evidence and provenance
- Original source
- CISA KEV report ↗
- Published
- 2021-11-03T00:00:00Z
- Confidence basis
- No actor match
- Record ID
28289b3daab98c976c11
Vulnerabilities
CVE-2021-20021, CVE-2021-20022, CVE-2021-20023
Use and citation
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