CVE-2023-41265 is a vulnerability in Qlik Sense
Published on August 29, 2023

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.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Qlik Sense HTTP Tunneling Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Qlik Sense contains an HTTP tunneling vulnerability that allows an attacker to escalate privileges and execute HTTP requests on the backend server hosting the software.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by December 28, 2023: Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-41265 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 3.1 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.

What is a HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability?

When malformed or abnormal HTTP requests are interpreted by one or more entities in the data flow between the user and the web server, such as a proxy or firewall, they can be interpreted inconsistently, allowing the attacker to "smuggle" a request to one device without the other device being aware of it.

CVE-2023-41265 has been classified to as a HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability or weakness.

Products Associated with CVE-2023-41265

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Qlik Sense

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