Is CVE-2019-9873 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2019-9873 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2019-9873?

CVE-2019-9873 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2019-9873?

CVE-2019-9873 has an EPSS score of 1.56% (72th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2019-9873?

Upgrade IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition to 2019.1 or later. Fixes are available for 5 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2019-9873

CRITICALEPSS 72th pctl

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

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.

CWE-312 CWE-522

How to fix

Remediation Available

IntelliJ IDEA Community EditionWindows application

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

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (EAP)Windows application

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

IntelliJ IDEA Educational EditionWindows application

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

IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate EditionWindows application

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

IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition (EAP)Windows application

Affected:2019.1Fixed in:2019.1JetBrains 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 ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

1.56%probability of exploitation in 30 days

72ndpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 72% 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.