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CVE-2021-20021

SonicWall Email Security Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

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.

Recommended action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA remediation due date for U.S. federal agencies: 17 Nov 2021.

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