Is CVE-2019-9872 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2019-9872 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2019-9872?

CVE-2019-9872 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2019-9872?

CVE-2019-9872 has an EPSS score of 1.15% (63th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2019-9872?

Upgrade IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition to 2018.2.8 or later. Fixes are available for 5 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2019-9872

HIGH

8.1

CVSS v3

NVD

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.

CWE-312 CWE-522

How to fix

Remediation Available

IntelliJ IDEA Community EditionWindows application

Affected:2018.2 2018.2.8Fixed in:2018.2.8JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.3 2018.3.5Fixed in:2018.3.5JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.3.6 2019.1Fixed in:2019.1JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.1 2018.1.8Fixed in:2018.1.8JetBrains s.r.o.

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (EAP)Windows application

Affected:2018.2 2018.2.8Fixed in:2018.2.8JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.3 2018.3.5Fixed in:2018.3.5JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.3.6 2019.1Fixed in:2019.1JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.1 2018.1.8Fixed in:2018.1.8JetBrains s.r.o.

IntelliJ IDEA Educational EditionWindows application

Affected:2018.2 2018.2.8Fixed in:2018.2.8JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.3 2018.3.5Fixed in:2018.3.5JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.3.6 2019.1Fixed in:2019.1JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.1 2018.1.8Fixed in:2018.1.8JetBrains s.r.o.

IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate EditionWindows application

Affected:2018.1 2018.1.8Fixed in:2018.1.8JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.3 2018.3.5Fixed in:2018.3.5JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.3.6 2019.1Fixed in:2019.1JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.2 2018.2.8Fixed in:2018.2.8JetBrains s.r.o.

IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition (EAP)Windows application

Affected:2018.1 2018.1.8Fixed in:2018.1.8JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.3 2018.3.5Fixed in:2018.3.5JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.3.6 2019.1Fixed in:2019.1JetBrains s.r.o.

Affected:2018.2 2018.2.8Fixed in:2018.2.8JetBrains s.r.o.

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityHigh

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.15%probability of exploitation in 30 days

63rdpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 63% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

blog.jetbrains.com

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.