QID 730399

Date Published: 2022-03-15

QID 730399: SonicWall On-Premise Email Security Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (SNWLID-2021-0007,SNWLID-2021-0008)

SonicWall Email Security appliances and software provide multi-layered protection from inbound and outbound email threats and compliance violations by scanning all inbound and outbound email content, URLs and attachments for sensitive data, delivering real-time protection against ransomware, targeted phishing, spoofing, viruses, malicious URLs, zombies, directory harvest (DHA), Denial of Service (DoS) and other attacks.

CVE-2021-20021: A vulnerability in the SonicWall Email Security version 10.0.9.x allows an attacker to create an administrative account by sending a crafted HTTP request to the remote host.
CVE-2021-20022: SonicWall Email Security version 10.0.9.x contains a vulnerability that allows a post-authenticated attacker to upload an arbitrary file to the remote host.

Affected Versions:
SonicWall On-premise Email Security (ES) 10.0.9 and earlier versions

NOTE:
CVEs are only affected for windows platform.

QID Detection Logic (Unauthenticated):
Look for affected versions by sending a get request to "login.html" endpoint.

Successful exploitation of these vulnerability may allow an remote attacker to create an administrative account by sending a crafted HTTP request to the remote host or with sufficient privileges to create an administrative account by sending a crafted HTTP request to the remote host.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • Solution
    The vendor has release patch and customers are requested to upgrade to 10.0.9.6103 or later. Please refer to SNWLID-2021-0007,SNWLID-2021-0008 for further information.

    CVEs related to QID 730399

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    SNWLID-2021-0007 URL Logo psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2021-0007
    SNWLID-2021-0008 URL Logo psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2021-0008

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