VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-9873

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.56%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-07-03
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

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

Primary references