CVE-2023-48365criticalunder attackransomwareCWE-444

CVE-2023-48365

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70Vexday Risk Score

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ssvc Actcvss 9.6epss 48%
from disclosure to weapon
Published on NVDNov 15
CISA KEV+425d
Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2025-02-03

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

In short

Qlik Sense Enterprise for Windows before specific patch versions allows attackers to execute code remotely without logging in by exploiting improper validation of HTTP headers, which lets them make unauthorized requests to the backend server.

Technical detail

CWE-444 (HTTP request smuggling/tunneling) via improper HTTP header validation in Qlik Sense Enterprise for Windows enables unauthenticated privilege escalation and remote code execution on the backend repository application. Attack requires network access to the affected service; this is an incomplete remediation of CVE-2023-41265.

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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 Patch 6, February 2023 Patch 10, November 2022 Patch 12, August 2022 Patch 14, May 2022 Patch 16, February 2022 Patch 15, and November 2021 Patch 17. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-41265.
CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:C/UI:N
Affected products
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