CVE-2023-4759 — Arbitrary File Overwrite in Eclipse JGit <= 6

Arbitrary File Overwrite in Eclipse JGit <= 6.6.0

01What is this vulnerability?

Arbitrary File Overwrite in Eclipse JGit <= 6.6.0

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Eclipse Foundation	Eclipse JGit	0.0.0, 5.13.3.202401111512-r

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-09-12T09:12:10.254Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T07:37:59.574Z

09References

• gitlab.eclipse.org — https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/11
• projects.eclipse.org — https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.jgit/releases/6.6.1
• git.eclipse.org — https://git.eclipse.org/c/jgit/jgit.git/commit/?id=9072103f3b3cf64dd12ad2949836a…