CVE-2019-16370

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-09-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-327

Description

The PGP signing plugin in Gradle before 6.0 relies on the SHA-1 algorithm, which might allow an attacker to replace an artifact with a different one that has the same SHA-1 message digest, a related issue to CVE-2005-4900.

Affected products

gradle: before 6.0 — fixed in 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: gradle 6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/gradle/gradle/commit/425b2b7a50cd84106a77cdf1ab665c89c6b14d2f
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/10543
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/commit/425b2b7a50cd84106a77cdf1ab665c89c6b14d2f
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/10543

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