Security Bulletin: IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and IBM Integration Bus Toolkit are vulnerable to a remote attacker due to Eclipse JGit (CVE-2023-4759)

Summary

Windows users of the Eclipse eGit feature in IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and IBM Integration Bus Toolkit are vulnerable to a remote attacker.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-4759
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse JGit could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper handling of case insensitive filesystems. By using a specially crafted symlink, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265872 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

See **Workarounds and Mitigations **

Workarounds and Mitigations

This affects windows users of the Eclipse eGit feature in the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and IBM Integration Bus Toolkit only

As described in the National Vulnerability Database entry <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4759&gt; the user performing the clone or checkout must have authority to create symbolic links and symbolic links must be enabled in the git configuration for the issue to occur.

This issue can be mitigated by setting the following git configuration option to disable symbolic links before checking out

• core.symlinks = false