VulnerabilityModified

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.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.56%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.56%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

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 following versions: 2019.1, 2018.3.5, 2018.2.8, and 2018.1.8.

CVSS 3.0: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 1.56% probability · 74th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-312, CWE-522
Affected: jetbrains/intellij idea
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2019/06/19/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q1-2019/Vendor Advisory
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2019/06/19/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q1-2019/Vendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.