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High · 8.6 CVE-2026-22816 EUVD-2026-3593

Gradle fails to disable repositories which can expose builds to malicious artifacts

Published Jan 16, 2026 · Updated Jan 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Gradle is a build automation tool, and its native-platform tool provides Java bindings for native APIs. When resolving dependencies in versions before 9.3.0, some exceptions were not treated as fatal errors and would not cause a repository to be disabled. If a build encountered one of these exceptions, Gradle would continue to the next repository in the list and potentially resolve dependencies from a different repository. If a Gradle build used an unresolvable host name, Gradle would continue to work as long as all dependencies could be resolved from another repository. An unresolvable host name could be caused by allowing a repository's domain name registration to lapse or typo-ing the real domain name. This behavior could allow an attacker to register a service under the host name used by the build and serve malicious artifacts. The attack requires the repository to be listed before others in the build configuration. Gradle has introduced a change in behavior in Gradle 9.3.0 to stop searching other repositories when encountering these errors.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
gradle gradle < 9.3.0 —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 gradle No fix yet —
Debian 13 gradle No fix yet —
Debian 12 gradle No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 gradle No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS gradle No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 gradle No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS gradle No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS gradle No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS gradle No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS gradle No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS gradle No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 gradle 8.14.4-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 gradle 8.14.4-r0 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling gradle-8 8.14.4-r0 —

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