CVE-2023-41266
Medium 6.5 Exploited in the wild (KEV) Used in ransomware campaigns
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Qlik Sense Path Traversal Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.
Description
A path traversal 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 an unauthenticated remote attacker to generate an anonymous session. This allows them to transmit HTTP requests to unauthorized endpoints. This is fixed in August 2023 IR, May 2023 Patch 4, February 2023 Patch 8, November 2022 Patch 11, and August 2022 Patch 13.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
-
6.5 (MEDIUM)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 85% (percentile: 100) as of 2 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-22
Affected products
qlik: qlik sense
References
- https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/Critical-Security-fixes… Vendor Advisory
- https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/Critical-Security-fixes… Vendor Advisory
- https://community.qlik.com/t5/Release-Notes/tkb-p/ReleaseNotes Release Notes
- https://community.qlik.com/t5/Release-Notes/tkb-p/ReleaseNotes Release Notes
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023… US Government Resource