Description
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.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | intellij-community-idea | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | intellij-community-idea | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | intellij-community-idea | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | intellij-community-idea | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | intellij-community-idea | No fix yet | — |