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.

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.

EPSS: 0.012 (64.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Jetbrains Intellij_idea
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

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.