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.
- Vendor
- SonicWall
- Product
- SonicWall Email Security
- CVSS
- 9.8
- EPSS (exploit probability)
- 83.4%
- Status
- kevransomware use
- CISA patch-by (BOD 22-01)
- Published
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.
Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2021-11-03. Required action per CISA: Apply updates per vendor instructions. Due date: 2021-11-17.
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