Known exploited · Qlik
CVE-2023-41265: Qlik Sense HTTP Tunneling Vulnerability
What it is
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.
- Vendor
- Qlik
- Product
- Sense
- Added to KEV
- December 7, 2023
- CISA due date
- December 28, 2023
- Ransomware use
- Known
What CISA requires
Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.
Forensic triage
No
What to do now
- Find every instance of Sense you run, including the forgotten ones, and check its version against the vendor advisory.
- Apply the vendor's fix or mitigation, before December 28, 2023 if you are bound by CISA's deadline, sooner if it faces the internet.
- Assume it was tried against you already: look for signs of exploitation from the date it was added, not from the day you patched.
- Until every instance is patched, block the attack at the edge: a WAF in blocking mode stops HTTP request smuggling patterns.
References
The Dome
Block it at the edge while you patch
The Dome's WAF runs the OWASP Core Rule Set in blocking mode and stops HTTP request smuggling patterns before they reach your application.
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Train the engineers who fix it
Security engineering on real hosts in the browser, every objective checked on the machine. The first two lessons of Linux 1 are free.
Start freeSource: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (public domain), catalog version 2026.10.01.