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CVE-2023-41266 — Qlik Sense Path Traversal Vulnerability

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 a

CVSS
8.2 HIGH
EPSS
94.30% (top 0.10%)
CWE
Published
2023-08-29T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-10-30T15:32:22.573Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:H/I:L/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
CISA KEV — Actively Exploited
Added to KEV
2023-12-07
BOD 22-01 due
2023-12-28
Ransomware use
Known

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / n/an/a

03Active exploitation status

Yes — actively exploited. Added to the CISA KEV catalog on 2023-12-07. Ransomware use: Known.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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