Insecure transport protocol in Gradle

published 2019-04-09 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-pprq-4488-wgqx , EUVD-2022-4803

cvss: 5.9; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.4%; EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits: 0; none known

Gradle versions from 1.4 to 5.3.1 use an insecure HTTP URL to download dependencies when the built-in JavaScript or CoffeeScript Gradle plugins are used. Dependency artifacts could have been maliciously compromised by a MITM attack against the ajax.googleapis.com web site.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 2 links 1

maven org.gradle:gradle-core 5.4.0

debian ubuntu

gradle Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.4.1-10

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11065

gradle Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 4.4.1-5ubuntu2~18.04+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11065

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

github.com/gradle/gradle#8927 pull request

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-11065 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 8.1

gradle: Insecure HTTP URL used to download dependencies leading to possibly maliciously compromised artifacts.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 3 gradle gradle
affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub	3.0	5.9	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.gradle:gradle-core	>=1.4, <5.4.0	5.4.0

Classification

Weakness

CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

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Summary