How severe is CVE-2023-41266?

CVE-2023-41266 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.2 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 84.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2023-41266: Qlik Sense Path Traversal

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Qlik Sense Path Traversal Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2023-12-07

Remediation due

2023-12-28

Ransomware

Known use

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

CISA 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

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA8.2 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:H/I:L/PR:N/S:U/UI:N

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

2 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2023-08-29

Last updated

2026-08-05

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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