In JetBrains Hub versions earlier than 2018.4.11298, the audit events for SMTPSettings show a cleartext password to the admin user.

published 2019-07-03 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-4427

cvss: 7.2; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.1%; EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits: 0; none known

In JetBrains Hub versions earlier than 2018.4.11298, the audit events for SMTPSettings show a cleartext password to the admin user. It is only relevant in cases where a password has not changed since 2017, and if the audit log still contains events from before that period.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

jetbrains hub 2018.4.11298

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Exploit prediction

1.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.2	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

blog.jetbrains.com /blog/2019/06/19/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q1-2019/
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-12847
NVD CVE-2019-12847

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