PT-2021-18203 · Gradle · Gradle

Zacsweers · Published 2021-04-13 · Updated 2024-03-06 · CVE-2021-29427

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.0

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Gradle versions 5.1 through 6.x

Description: The issue can lead to information disclosure and/or dependency poisoning due to Gradle ignoring content filters and searching all repositories for dependencies when repository content filtering is used from within a pluginManagement block in a settings file. This may cause two risks:

1. Information disclosure: Gradle could make dependency requests to repositories outside the organization and leak internal package identifiers.
2. Dependency poisoning/Dependency confusion: Gradle could download a malicious binary from a repository outside the organization due to name squatting.

Recommendations: For Gradle versions 5.1 through 6.x, upgrade to Gradle 7.0 as soon as possible to patch the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider using a company repository with the right rules for fetching packages from public repositories. Alternatively, use project-level repository content filtering, inside buildscript.repositories, which is available since Gradle 5.1.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-829

Related Identifiers

BIT-GRADLE-2021-29427

CVE-2021-29427

GHSA-JVMJ-RH6Q-X395

Affected Products

Gradle

References · 5

• 🔥 https://github.com/gradle/gradle/security/advisories/GHSA-jvmj-rh6q-x395 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-gradle-2021-29427 · Vendor Advisory
• https://docs.gradle.org/7.0/release-notes.html#security-advisories · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29427 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-29427 · Vendor Advisory