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Security digest: December 7, 2023

2 known exploited (cisa kev) additions and 1 critical advisory.

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Take stock

  • Do you run any of these? Qlik Sense. They are being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Patch or mitigate if you do; CISA’s federal deadline is 2023-12-28.
  • Maven: 1 critical advisory (org.apache.struts:struts2-core). Check with mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=<groupId>:<artifactId>.
  • None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

Known exploited (CISA KEV) 2

Added to CISA’s catalog on this day: confirmed exploitation in the wild. Due date = CISA’s deadline for US federal agencies.

CVEProduct and flawCISA due
CVE-2023-41266Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense Path Traversal Vulnerability Ransomware
2023-12-28
CVE-2023-41265Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense HTTP Tunneling Vulnerability Ransomware
2023-12-28

Critical advisories by ecosystem 1

GitHub-reviewed advisories rated critical, published this day (Pacific time).

Maven 1

Check: mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=<groupId>:<artifactId>

  • Apache Struts vulnerable to path traversal CVE-2023-50164 CVSS 9.8 Critical
    org.apache.struts:struts2-core >= 6.0.0, < 6.3.0.2 → fixed in 6.3.0.2; org.apache.struts:struts2-core >= 2.0.0, < 2.5.33 → fixed in 2.5.33