JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.2 unauthorized settings modification was possible in a Remote Development session

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.2 unauthorized input injection was possible in a Remote Development session

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.

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 JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.1, the license server could be resolved to an untrusted host in some cases.

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.

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.

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 2026.1.4, 2026.2 code execution via path traversal in project workspace ID handling was possible

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.2 arbitrary code injection was possible via UI Designer form files

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.3.2 code execution was possible in Untrusted Project mode via a malicious plugin repository specified in the project configuration

GitHub access token could be exposed to third-party sites in JetBrains IDEs after version 2023.1 and less than: IntelliJ IDEA 2023.1.7, 2023.2.7, 2023.3.7, 2024.1.3, 2024.2 EAP3; Aqua 2024.1.2; CLion 2023.1.7, 2023.2.4, 2023.3.5, 2024.1.3, 2024.2 EAP2; DataGrip 2023.1.3, 2023.2.4, 2023.3.5, 2024.1.4; DataSpell 2023.1.6, 2023.2.7, 2023.3.6, 2024.1.2, 2024.2 EAP1; GoLand 2023.1.6, 2023.2.7, 2023.3.7, 2024.1.3, 2024.2 EAP3; MPS 2023.2.1, 2023.3.1, 2024.1 EAP2; PhpStorm 2023.1.6, 2023.2.6, 2023.3.7, 2024.1.3, 2024.2 EAP3; PyCharm 2023.1.6, 2023.2.7, 2023.3.6, 2024.1.3, 2024.2 EAP2; Rider 2023.1.7, 2023.2.5, 2023.3.6, 2024.1.3; RubyMine 2023.1.7, 2023.2.7, 2023.3.7, 2024.1.3, 2024.2 EAP4; RustRover 2024.1.1; WebStorm 2023.1.6, 2023.2.7, 2023.3.7, 2024.1.4

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.1.1 command execution was possible via the guest user account

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1 the bundled version of Chromium wasn't sandboxed.

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.2 unauthorized file access was possible in a Remote Development session

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.3.3 it was possible to get passwords from protected fields

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.

IntelliJ IDEA XML parser was found vulnerable to XML External Entity attack, an attacker can exploit the vulnerability by implementing malicious code on both Androidmanifest.xml.

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.3, potentially insecure deserialization of the workspace model could lead to local code execution.

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.1.1 command injection was possible via filename completion

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3.3, local code execution was possible because of insufficient checks when getting the project from VCS.

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.3.1, local code execution via RLO (Right-to-Left Override) characters was possible.

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 2023.2 plugin for Space was requesting excessive permissions

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3 a DYLIB injection on macOS was possible.

The installer of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2.2 was vulnerable to EXE search order hijacking

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.3.1 code Templates were vulnerable to SSTI attacks.

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2 local code execution via a Vagrant executable was possible

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.2.1 rCE via Markdown export tool was possible

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.2 arbitrary code execution was possible before granting project trust via development container configuration

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.1 code execution was possible via template injection in the Copyright plugin

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.2.4 a buffer overflow in the fsnotifier daemon on macOS was possible.

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2023.1 in some cases, Gradle and Maven projects could be imported without the “Trust Project” confirmation.

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 local code execution via HTML descriptions in custom JSON schemas was possible

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2022.1 local code execution via links in Quick Documentation was possible

In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2021.1, DoS was possible because of unbounded resource allocation.

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.

Ports listened to by JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2019.3 were exposed to the network.

In IntelliJ IDEA before 2020.3.3, XXE was possible, leading to information disclosure.

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.