SARA / Free Tools / KEV / CVE-2023-48365

CVE-2023-48365 on CISA KEV

Qlik Sense Enterprise for Windows before August 2023 Patch 2 allows unauthenticated remote code execution, aka QB-21683. Due to improper validation of HTTP headers, a remote attacker is able to elevate their privilege by tunneling HTTP requests, allowing them to execute HTTP requ

CISA KEV — Actively Exploited

Qlik Sense HTTP Tunneling Vulnerability

Vendor / Product
— / Qlik / Sense
Added to KEV
2025-01-13
BOD 22-01 due
2025-02-03
Ransomware use
Known
CVSS / EPSS
9.6 CRITICAL · EPSS 64.23%

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Qlik Sense Enterprise for Windows before August 2023 Patch 2 allows unauthenticated remote code execution, aka QB-21683. Due to improper validation of HTTP headers, a remote attacker is able to elevate their privilege by tunneling HTTP requests, allowing them to execute HTTP requests on the backend server that hosts the repository application. The fixed versions are August 2023 Patch 2, May 2023…

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

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

03Notes & references

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

VendorProductVersions
na / n/an/a

06Detection

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