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CVE-2019-14954

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Published: Oct 01, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14954
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/319.html

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2019.2 was resolving the markdown plantuml artifact download link via a cleartext http connection.

Weakness

The product transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Intellij_idea Jetbrains * 2019.2 (excluding)
Intellij-community-idea Ubuntu groovy *
Intellij-community-idea Ubuntu hirsute *
Intellij-community-idea Ubuntu impish *
Intellij-community-idea Ubuntu kinetic *
Intellij-community-idea Ubuntu lunar *
Intellij-community-idea Ubuntu mantic *
Intellij-community-idea Ubuntu oracular *
Intellij-community-idea Ubuntu trusty *
Intellij-idea Ubuntu trusty *

Potential Mitigations

References

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