CVE-2019-9873 — 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

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CRITICAL

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

Published Jul 3, 2019

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 1.56%

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

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.56% 0.01564

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01564

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.56% (0.01564)	74.38th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.56% (0.01564)	71.98th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.22% (0.00222)	60.93th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 13, 2024	0.22% (0.00222)	60.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.22% (0.00222)	58.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	9.03% (0.09029)	86.86th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	1.84% (0.01840)	47.83th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jan 6, 2022	1.84% (0.01840)	47.32th	v1
Sep 1, 2021	0.42% (0.00416)	25.53th	v1
Apr 14, 2021	0.42% (0.00416)	0.00th	v1