Bug#1055176: gradle: CVE-2023-42445

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: gradle
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for gradle.

CVE-2023-42445[0]:
| Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support
| for multi-language development. In some cases, when Gradle parses
| XML files, resolving XML external entities is not disabled. Combined
| with an Out Of Band XXE attack (OOB-XXE), just parsing XML can lead
| to exfiltration of local text files to a remote server. Gradle
| parses XML files for several purposes. Most of the time, Gradle
| parses XML files it generated or were already present locally. Only
| Ivy XML descriptors and Maven POM files can be fetched from remote
| repositories and parsed by Gradle. In Gradle 7.6.3 and 8.4,
| resolving XML external entities has been disabled for all use cases
| to protect against this vulnerability. Gradle will now refuse to
| parse XML files that have XML external entities.

https://github.com/gradle/gradle/security/advisories/GHSA-mrff-q8qj-xvg8

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-42445
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-42445

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.