8.6

CVE-2026-22865: Gradle's failure to disable repositories failing to answer can expose builds to malicious artifacts

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-22865DEBIAN-CVE-2026-22865CGA-83fm-jff2-m5p3
Published 16-01-2026Last modified 20-01-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-22865 is a high (CVSS 8.6) Download of Code Without Integrity Check vulnerability in gradle. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 8.6, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
8.6/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 1
CGA-5Q33-27FX-MHJ8

Timeline

  1. 16-01-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 20-01-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

9 scores · 7 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

5%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.15% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard199 products
  • eco-java-gradleAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • eco-java-gradle-1.11All versions (No fix recorded)
  • eco-java-gradle-1.11-defaultAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • eco-java-gradle-2.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • eco-java-gradle-2.0-defaultAll versions (No fix recorded)
Alpine1 product
  • gradle≥ 9.0.0, < 8.14.4-r0

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References

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