CVE-2021-20021

Vulnerability details

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 KEV: 2021-11-03

Ransomware campaign use: Known

CISA due date: 2021-11-17

Defensive guidance from CISA

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