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CVE-2019-9873

• 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 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.

Affected products

• JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA: before 2019.1 — fixed in 2019.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 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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