High severity · published Jul 3, 2019
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…
8.1
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 67% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
II
Intellij Idea · Jetbrains
2018.1 before 2018.1.8; 2018.2 before 2018.2.8; 2018.3 before 2018.3.5; 2018.3.6 before 2019.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9872
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9872
Vendor Advisory
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2019/06/19/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q1-2019/
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