Bug#1126753: gradle: CVE-2026-22816

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: gradle
Version: 4.4.1-18
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for gradle.

CVE-2026-22816[0]:
| 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.


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-2026-22816
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-22816
[1] https://github.com/gradle/gradle/security/advisories/GHSA-w78c-w6vf-rw82

Regards,
Salvatore