What is CVE-2019-9873?

CVE-2019-9873 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Jetbrains Intellij_idea, classified under Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-07-03.

How severe is CVE-2019-9873?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Jetbrains Intellij_idea

CVE-2019-9873

In several versions of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, creating Task Servers configurations leads to saving a cleartext unencrypted record of the server credentials in the IDE configuration files. The issue has been fixed in the followin…

EPSS: 0.016 (72.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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)

CWE-312 — Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-9873?: CVE-2019-9873 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Jetbrains Intellij_idea, classified under Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-07-03.
How severe is CVE-2019-9873?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.