CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-14957

Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Oct 01, 2019 | Modified: Oct 08, 2019
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The JetBrains Vim plugin before version 0.52 was storing individual project data in the global vim_settings.xml file. This xml file could be synchronized to a publicly accessible GitHub repository.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information without properly limiting read or write access by unauthorized actors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Vim Jetbrains * *

References