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CVE-2023-41266 Qlik CVE debrief

CVE-2023-41266 is a Qlik Sense path traversal vulnerability that CISA added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-12-07. CISA marks it as known to be used in ransomware campaigns and directs organizations to apply vendor remediations or mitigations, or discontinue use of the product if those are unavailable.

Vendor
Qlik
Product
Sense
CVSS
HIGH 8.2
CISA KEV
Listed
Original CVE published
2023-12-07
Original CVE updated
2023-12-07
Advisory published
2023-12-07
Advisory updated
2023-12-07

Who should care

Administrators, security teams, and incident responders responsible for Qlik Sense deployments should treat this as urgent, especially where the product supports business-critical analytics or is exposed to broad internal or external access.

Technical summary

The supplied corpus identifies the issue as a path traversal vulnerability in Qlik Sense. The most important defensive signal in the source set is CISA’s KEV listing, which indicates known exploitation and known ransomware campaign use. The corpus does not include version-specific impact details, exploit mechanics, or full vendor remediation text, so response should rely on the official Qlik support guidance referenced by CISA.

Defensive priority

critical

Recommended defensive actions

  • Apply the remediation or mitigation guidance from Qlik’s official security fix advisory referenced by CISA.
  • If remediation or mitigations are not available for a given deployment, discontinue use of the product per CISA guidance.
  • Prioritize inventory, patch verification, and exposure review for all Qlik Sense instances, then confirm the environment is no longer vulnerable.

Evidence notes

Evidence is limited to the supplied CISA KEV record and its linked official resources. The source corpus confirms the CVE identifier, product family (Qlik Sense), KEV listing, date added, due date, and the 'Known' ransomware-campaign-use flag. No CVSS score or affected-version list was provided in the supplied material.

Sources and references

Verified primary and authoritative sources

  • CVE-2023-41266 CVE Program record

    Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified

    URL: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-41266

    CVE Program - Official CVE Program record with source-provided CVE metadata.

  • CVE-2023-41266 NVD vulnerability detail

    Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified

    URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41266

    NIST National Vulnerability Database - Official NIST NVD detail page and source-specific vulnerability assessment.

  • CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

    Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified

    URL: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

    Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency - Official CISA catalog of vulnerabilities known to be exploited in the wild.

Supplemental references

  • Source item URL

    Unverified legacy reference

    URL: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json

    cisa_kev

Methodology and review provenance

AI-assisted synthesis based on stored public vulnerability evidence. System validation, approval state, and publication status do not by themselves establish human review of this revision. PatchSiren helps prioritize defensive review and does not prove exposure or remediation on any system.