Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-44218

High

Published: 03 October 2023

Published
03 October 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0008 24.7th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-44218 is a high-severity Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions (CWE-267) vulnerability in Sonicwall Netextender. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 24.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A flaw within the SonicWall NetExtender Pre-Logon feature enables an unauthorized user to gain access to the host Windows operating system with 'SYSTEM' level privileges, leading to a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability.

CWE(s)
CWE-267NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

sonicwall
netextender
≤ 10.2.336

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References