CVE-2022-40978 - The installer of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2.2 was vulnerable to EXE search order hijacking

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HIGH

The installer of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2.2 was vulnerable to EXE search order hijacking

Published Sep 19, 2022

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.26%

Description

The installer of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2.2 was vulnerable to EXE search order hijacking

Affected products

Vendor JetBrains Product IntelliJ IDEA Default
n/a
- Version
  2022.2.2
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <2022.2.2

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

JetBrains

IntelliJ IDEA

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
2022.2.2	affected	<2022.2.2

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-427

References (2)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-44224
Advisory
https://www.jetbrains.com/privacy-security/issues-fixed/
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-44224		Advisory
https://www.jetbrains.com/privacy-security/issues-fixed/		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner JetBrains

Published Sep 19, 2022

Updated Aug 3, 2024

Reserved Sep 19, 2022

Link CVE-2022-40978

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2022-40978

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2022-40978

ENISA EUVD

Assigner JetBrains

Published Sep 19, 2022

Updated Aug 3, 2024

Exploited since n/a

Link EUVD-2022-44224

EUVD-2022-44224