Disclosure summary
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.
CISA remediation guidance
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Original records & references
PUBLISHED 2021-11-03T00:00:00-04:00
MODIFIED 2021-11-03T00:00:00-04:00
INGESTED 2026-10-06T11:42:59-04:00