QID 730402

Date Published: 2022-03-16

QID 730402: SonicWall On-Premise Email Post-Authentication Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability (SNWLID-2021-0010)

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-2021-20023: SonicWall Email Security version 10.0.9.x contains a vulnerability that allows a post-authenticated attacker to read an arbitrary file on 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 this vulnerability may allow an remote attacker with sufficient privileges to read arbitrary file read of the target system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 4.9 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4 severity.
  • Solution
    The vendor has release patch and customers are requested to upgrade to 10.0.9.6173 or later. Please refer to SNWLID-2021-0010 for further information.
    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    SNWLID-2021-0010 URL Logo psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2021-0010

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