CVE-2023-41266: Qlik Sense Path Traversal Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

Qlik Sense contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an anonymous session by sending maliciously crafted HTTP requests. This anonymous session could allow the attacker to send further requests to unauthorized endpoints.

Required action (CISA)

Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Notes

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/Critical-Security-fixes-for-Qlik-Sense-Enterprise-for-Windows/ta-p/2110801 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41266

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-20. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41266
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog