Coverage › CVE-2021-20023
CVE-2021-20023 Unmapped
SonicWall Email Security Path Traversal Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- SonicWall — SonicWall Email Security
- Description (CISA)
- 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.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2021-11-17
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-22
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20023
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2021-20023. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-22) — here is why — and does not guess.
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