Vulnerability in Jetbrains Intellij Idea

CVE-2019-9872

In several versions of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, creating run configurations for cloud application servers leads to saving a cleartext unencrypted record of the server credentials in the IDE configuration files. If the Settings Repository plugin was then used and configured to synchronize IDE settings using a public repository, these credentials were published to this repository. The issue has been fixed in the following versions: 2019.1, 2018.3.5, 2018.2.8, and 2018.1.8.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (66.5th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 66.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2019-9872: held from 0.012 to 0.012.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-9872?
CVE-2019-9872 is a high-severity vulnerability in Jetbrains Intellij Idea, classified under Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2019-07-03.
How severe is CVE-2019-9872?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.