CVE-2021-20023
SonicWall Email Security Path Traversal Vulnerability
IN CISA KEV
SonicWall Email Security contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows a post-authenticated attacker to read files on the remote host. This vulnerability has known usage in a SonicWall Email Security exploit chain along with CVE-2021-20021 and CVE-2021-20022 to achieve privilege escalation.
- Vendor
- SonicWall
- Product
- SonicWall Email Security
- CVSS
- No score recorded (no NVD record loaded for this entry)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Not recorded
- NVD modified
- Not recorded
CISA KEV
- Date added
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2021-11-17
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
EPSS
51.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (percentile 98th)
FIRST EPSS, updated 17 Oct 2026. About EPSS
CVSS is severity, EPSS is likelihood, KEV means already exploited. EPSS is a statistical probability, not a certainty: a low score does not make a bug safe, and a high one does not prove it is being exploited.
Data last updated 18 Oct 2026. Sources: NVD API 2.0, CISA KEV catalog, FIRST EPSS. Links: NVD, CISA KEV. Metadata only. ThreatWire does not host exploit code.