CVE-2023-4759
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-12 09:12
Modified
2024-08-02 07:37
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Improper handling of case insensitive filesystems in Eclipse JGit allows arbitrary file write
References
emo@eclipse.orghttps://git.eclipse.org/c/jgit/jgit.git/commit/?id=9072103f3b3cf64dd12ad2949836ab98f62dabf1Patch, Vendor Advisory
emo@eclipse.orghttps://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/11Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
emo@eclipse.orghttps://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.jgit/releases/6.6.1Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.eclipse.org/c/jgit/jgit.git/commit/?id=9072103f3b3cf64dd12ad2949836ab98f62dabf1Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/11Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.jgit/releases/6.6.1Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
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