JetBrains Intellij Idea
By the Year
In 2023 there have been 6 vulnerabilities in JetBrains Intellij Idea with an average score of 7.1 out of ten. Last year Intellij Idea had 20 security vulnerabilities published. Right now, Intellij Idea is on track to have less security vulnerabilities in 2023 than it did last year. However, the average CVE base score of the vulnerabilities in 2023 is greater by 0.77.
| Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 7.12 |
| 2022 | 20 | 6.35 |
| 2021 | 5 | 7.18 |
| 2020 | 5 | 7.50 |
| 2019 | 7 | 8.36 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0.00 |
It may take a day or so for new Intellij Idea vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilties. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.
Recent JetBrains Intellij Idea Security Vulnerabilities
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.2 plugin for Space was requesting excessive permissions
CVE-2023-39261
7.8 - High
- July 26, 2023
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.2 plugin for Space was requesting excessive permissions
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1.4 license dialog could be suppressed in certain cases
CVE-2023-38069
3.3 - Low
- July 12, 2023
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1.4 license dialog could be suppressed in certain cases
Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1 file content could be disclosed
CVE-2022-48430
7.5 - High
- March 29, 2023
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1 file content could be disclosed via an external stylesheet path in Markdown preview.
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1 in some cases
CVE-2022-48431
7.8 - High
- March 29, 2023
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1 in some cases, Gradle and Maven projects could be imported without the Trust Project confirmation.
Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1 the bundled version of Chromium wasn't sandboxed.
CVE-2022-48432
8.8 - High
- March 29, 2023
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1 the bundled version of Chromium wasn't sandboxed.
Insecure Default Initialization of Resource
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1 the NTLM hash could leak through an API method used in the IntelliJ IDEA built-in web server.
CVE-2022-48433
7.5 - High
- March 29, 2023
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1 the NTLM hash could leak through an API method used in the IntelliJ IDEA built-in web server.
Insufficiently Protected Credentials
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3.1 code Templates were vulnerable to SSTI attacks.
CVE-2022-47896
7.8 - High
- December 22, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3.1 code Templates were vulnerable to SSTI attacks.
Code Injection
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3.1 the "Validate JSP File" action used the HTTP protocol to download required JAR files.
CVE-2022-47895
7.5 - High
- December 22, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3.1 the "Validate JSP File" action used the HTTP protocol to download required JAR files.
Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3 an XXE attack leading to SSRF
CVE-2022-46827
5.5 - Medium
- December 08, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3 an XXE attack leading to SSRF via requests to custom plugin repositories was possible.
XXE
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3 the built-in web server
CVE-2022-46826
5.5 - Medium
- December 08, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3 the built-in web server allowed an arbitrary file to be read by exploiting a path traversal vulnerability.
Directory traversal
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3 the built-in web server leaked information about open projects.
CVE-2022-46825
3.3 - Low
- December 08, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3 the built-in web server leaked information about open projects.
Inadequate Encryption Strength
The installer of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2.2 was vulnerable to EXE search order hijacking
CVE-2022-40978
7.8 - High
- September 19, 2022
The installer of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2.2 was vulnerable to EXE search order hijacking
DLL preloading
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2 local code execution
CVE-2022-37009
7.8 - High
- July 28, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2 local code execution via a Vagrant executable was possible
Code Injection
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2 email address validation in the "Git User Name Is Not Defined" dialog was missed
CVE-2022-37010
3.3 - Low
- July 28, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2 email address validation in the "Git User Name Is Not Defined" dialog was missed
Improper Input Validation
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 local code execution
CVE-2022-29819
7.7 - High
- April 28, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 local code execution via links in Quick Documentation was possible
Code Injection
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 notification mechanisms about using Unicode directionality formatting characters were insufficient
CVE-2022-29812
2.3 - Low
- April 28, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 notification mechanisms about using Unicode directionality formatting characters were insufficient
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 local code execution
CVE-2022-29813
6.7 - Medium
- April 28, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 local code execution via custom Pandoc path was possible
Code Injection
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 local code execution
CVE-2022-29814
7.7 - High
- April 28, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 local code execution via HTML descriptions in custom JSON schemas was possible
Code Injection
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 local code execution
CVE-2022-29815
6.7 - Medium
- April 28, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 local code execution via workspace settings was possible
Code Injection
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 HTML injection into IDE messages was possible
CVE-2022-29816
3.2 - Low
- April 28, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 HTML injection into IDE messages was possible
XSS
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 reflected XSS
CVE-2022-29817
6.1 - Medium
- April 28, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 reflected XSS via error messages in internal web server was possible
XSS
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 origin checks in the internal web server were flawed
CVE-2022-29818
7.1 - High
- April 28, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 origin checks in the internal web server were flawed
Origin Validation Error
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.3.3 it was possible to get passwords
CVE-2022-28651
5.5 - Medium
- April 05, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.3.3 it was possible to get passwords from protected fields
Insufficiently Protected Credentials
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.1 Preview
CVE-2021-45977
9.8 - Critical
- February 25, 2022
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.1 Preview, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.1 RC, PyCharm Professional 2021.3.1 RC, GoLand 2021.3.1, PhpStorm 2021.3.1 Preview, PhpStorm 2021.3.1 RC, RubyMine 2021.3.1 Preview, RubyMine 2021.3.1 RC, CLion 2021.3.1, WebStorm 2021.3.1 Preview, and WebStorm 2021.3.1 RC (used as Remote Development backend IDEs) bind to the 0.0.0.0 IP address. The fixed versions are: IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.1, PyCharm Professional 2021.3.1, GoLand 2021.3.2, PhpStorm 2021.3.1 (213.6461.83), RubyMine 2021.3.1, CLion 2021.3.2, and WebStorm 2021.3.1.
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.2.4, local code execution (without permission
CVE-2022-24345
7.8 - High
- February 25, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.2.4, local code execution (without permission from a user) upon opening a project was possible.
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.3.1, local code execution
CVE-2022-24346
7.8 - High
- February 25, 2022
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.3.1, local code execution via RLO (Right-to-Left Override) characters was possible.
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3.3, local code execution was possible
CVE-2021-29263
7.8 - High
- May 11, 2021
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3.3, local code execution was possible because of insufficient checks when getting the project from VCS.
In IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.3.3
CVE-2021-30006
7.5 - High
- May 11, 2021
In IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.3.3, XXE was possible, leading to information disclosure.
XXE
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.1, DoS was possible
CVE-2021-30504
7.5 - High
- May 11, 2021
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.1, DoS was possible because of unbounded resource allocation.
Resource Exhaustion
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.3
CVE-2021-25758
7.8 - High
- February 03, 2021
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.3, potentially insecure deserialization of the workspace model could lead to local code execution.
Marshaling, Unmarshaling
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.2
CVE-2021-25756
5.3 - Medium
- February 03, 2021
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.2, HTTP links were used for several remote repositories instead of HTTPS.
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.2
CVE-2020-27622
5.3 - Medium
- November 16, 2020
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.2, the built-in web server could expose information about the IDE version.
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.1
CVE-2020-11690
9.8 - Critical
- April 22, 2020
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.1, the license server could be resolved to an untrusted host in some cases.
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2, an XSLT debugger plugin misconfiguration allows arbitrary file read operations over the network
CVE-2020-7914
7.5 - High
- January 31, 2020
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2, an XSLT debugger plugin misconfiguration allows arbitrary file read operations over the network. This issue was fixed in 2019.3.
Information Disclosure
Ports listened to by JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2019.3 were exposed to the network.
CVE-2020-7905
7.5 - High
- January 30, 2020
Ports listened to by JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2019.3 were exposed to the network.
Information Disclosure
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2019.3, some Maven repositories were accessed
CVE-2020-7904
7.4 - High
- January 30, 2020
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2019.3, some Maven repositories were accessed via HTTP instead of HTTPS.
Improper Certificate Validation
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2019.2
CVE-2019-18361
5.3 - Medium
- October 31, 2019
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2019.2 allows local user privilege escalation, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2019.2 was resolving the markdown plantuml artifact download link
CVE-2019-14954
5.9 - Medium
- October 01, 2019
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2019.2 was resolving the markdown plantuml artifact download link via a cleartext http connection.
Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
In several JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA versions, a Spring Boot run configuration with the default setting
CVE-2019-9186
9.8 - Critical
- July 03, 2019
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.
Improper Input Validation
In several JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate versions, an Application Server run configuration (for Tomcat, Jetty, Resin, or CloudBees) with the default setting
CVE-2019-10104
9.8 - Critical
- July 03, 2019
In several JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate versions, an Application Server run configuration (for Tomcat, Jetty, Resin, or CloudBees) with the default setting allowed a remote attacker to execute code when the configuration is running, because a JMX server listened on all interfaces instead of localhost only. The issue has been fixed in the following versions: 2018.3.4, 2018.2.8, 2018.1.8, and 2017.3.7.
In several versions of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate
CVE-2019-9873
9.8 - Critical
- July 03, 2019
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.
Insufficiently Protected Credentials
In several versions of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate
CVE-2019-9872
8.1 - High
- July 03, 2019
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.
Insufficiently Protected Credentials
In several JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA versions
CVE-2019-9823
9.8 - Critical
- July 03, 2019
In several JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA versions, creating remote run configurations of JavaEE application servers leads to saving a cleartext record of the server credentials in the IDE configuration files. The issue has been fixed in the following versions: 2018.3.5, 2018.2.8, 2018.1.8.
Insufficiently Protected Credentials
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