CVE-2026-22865

Gradle's failure to disable repositories failing to answer can expose builds to malicious artifacts

HIGH
7.4
CVSS Score
Published: January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 10:20 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGradle

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Severity
HIGH7.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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. An exception like NoHttpResponseException can indicate transient errors. If the errors persist after a maximum number of retries, Gradle would continue to the next repository. This behavior could allow an attacker to disrupt the service of a repository and leverage another repository to serve malicious artifacts. This attack requires the attacker to have control over a repository after the disrupted repository. Gradle has introduced a change in behavior in Gradle 9.3.0 to stop searching other repositories when encountering these errors.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 8.14.4v < 9.3.09.0.0 ≤ v < 9.3.0
Affected range stops below 9.3.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (1)

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/security/advisories/GHSA-mqwm-5m85-gmcv

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-494CWE-829

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