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CVE-2019-9872

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% 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 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.

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; from 2018.3.6 before 2019.1 — fixed in 2018.1.8, 2018.2.8, 2018.3.5, 2019.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.8, 2018.2.8, 2018.3.5, 2019.1. 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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