Actively exploited · Published Aug 29, 2023 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2023-41265
Critical 9.6 Exploited Ransomware
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in Sense from Qlik. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on December 7, 2023). It has been used in ransomware campaigns. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 88.2% (higher than 99.8% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.
CISA guidance
Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.
Federal agencies must remediate by Dec 28, 2023.
Official description
An HTTP Request Tunneling vulnerability found in Qlik Sense Enterprise for Windows for versions May 2023 Patch 3 and earlier, February 2023 Patch 7 and earlier, November 2022 Patch 10 and earlier, and August 2022 Patch 12 and earlier allows a remote attacker to elevate their privilege by tunneling HTTP requests in the raw HTTP request. This allows them to send requests that get executed by the backend server hosting the repository application. This is fixed in August 2023 IR, May 2023 Patch 4, February 2023 Patch 8, November 2022 Patch 11, and August 2022 Patch 13.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-444 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:C/UI:N