What is CVE-2020-7914?

CVE-2020-7914 is a high-severity vulnerability in Jetbrains Intellij Idea. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-31.

How severe is CVE-2020-7914?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Jetbrains Intellij Idea

CVE-2020-7914

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2, an XSLT debugger plugin misconfiguration allows arbitrary file read operations over the network. This issue was fixed in 2019.3.

Published 2020-01-31 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (78.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Jetbrains Intellij Idea

References

blog.jetbrains.com (Vendor Advisory)
blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2020/01/24/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q4-2019/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-7914?: CVE-2020-7914 is a high-severity vulnerability in Jetbrains Intellij Idea. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-31.
How severe is CVE-2020-7914?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.