In several versions of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, creating run configurations for cloud application servers leads to saving a cleart…

published 2019-07-03 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-19228

cvss: 8.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.2%; EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

jetbrains intellij_idea 2018.1.8, 2018.2.8, 2018.3.5, 2019.1

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Exploit prediction

1.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

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

References

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

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-9872
NVD CVE-2019-9872

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