CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2019-9186

Intellij Idea vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
In several JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA versions, a Spring Boot run configuration with the default setting allowed remote attackers to execute code when the configuration is running, because a JMX server listens on all interfaces (instead of listening on only the localhost interface). This issue has been fixed in the following versions: 2019.1, 2018.3.4, 2018.2.8, 2018.1.8, and 2017.3.7.
Affected vendor
Jetbrains
Affected product
Intellij Idea
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-668 — Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
Published
2019-07-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-9186

  • Confirm whether Jetbrains Intellij Idea is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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