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CVE-2024-36077 — Qlik Sense Enterprise for Windows before 14.187.4 allows a remote attacker to elevate their privilege due to improper validation

High CVSS 8.8

Qlik Sense Enterprise for Windows before 14.187.4 allows a remote attacker to elevate their privilege due to improper validation. The attacker can elevate their privilege to the internal system role, which allows them to execute commands on the server. This affects February 2024 Patch 3 (14.173.3 through 14.173.7), November 2023 Patch 8 (14.159.4 through 14.159.13), August 2023 Patch 13 (14.139.3 through 14.139.20), May 2023 Patch 15 (14.129.3 through 14.129.22), February 2023 Patch 13 (14.113.1 through 14.113.18), November 2022 Patch 13 (14.97.2 through 14.97.18), August 2022 Patch 16 (14.78.3 through 14.78.23), and May 2022 Patch 17 (14.67.7 through 14.67.31). This has been fixed in May 2024 (14.187.4), February 2024 Patch 4 (14.173.8), November 2023 Patch 9 (14.159.14), August 2023 Patch 14 (14.139.21), May 2023 Patch 16 (14.129.23), February 2023 Patch 14 (14.113.19), November 2022 Patch 14 (14.97.19), August 2022 Patch 17 (14.78.25), and May 2022 Patch 18 (14.67.34).

Severity
High
CVSS
8.8 (3.1)
Published
2024-05-22
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
windows/system
Weaknesses
CWE-269

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Matched remediation archetype

Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management

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Check exposure

  • Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
  • Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
  • Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
  • Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
  • Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.

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