CVE-2019-9823

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-312

Description

In several JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA versions, creating remote run configurations of JavaEE application servers leads to saving a cleartext record of the server credentials in the IDE configuration files. The issue has been fixed in the following versions: 2018.3.5, 2018.2.8, 2018.1.8.

Affected products

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA: from 2018.1 before 2018.1.8; from 2018.2 before 2018.2.8; from 2018.3 before 2018.3.5 — fixed in 2018.1.8, 2018.2.8, 2018.3.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.8, 2018.2.8, 2018.3.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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