CVE-2021-20021
KEV · RansomwareSonicWall Email Security Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
View CVE record →- Vendor / Project
- SonicWall
- Product
- SonicWall Email Security
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
- Due date
- Nov 17, 2021
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWEs
- CWE-306
Description
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
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