CVE-2020-7914 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2020-7914?

CVE-2020-7914 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Jetbrains Intellij Idea, published on 31 Jan 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-7914?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Jetbrains Intellij Idea.

How do I fix CVE-2020-7914?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-7914 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2020-7914 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-7914 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Jetbrains Intellij Idea

• CVE-2026-64812 Missing authorization in IntelliJ IDEA Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-64813 Missing authorization in IntelliJ IDEA Critical 10.0
• CVE-2020-11690 Server-side request forgery in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-10104 Misconfiguration in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-9186 Misconfiguration in n/a Critical 9.8

All Jetbrains Intellij Idea vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-6xx4-ppcj-mhp8, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7914.