CVE-2022-31156 Gradle's dependency verification can ignore checksum verification when signature verification cannot be performed

Gradle is a build tool. Dependency verification is a security feature in Gradle Build Tool that was introduced to allow validation of external dependencies either through their checksum or cryptographic signatures. In versions 6.2 through 7.4.2, there are some cases in which Gradle may skip that...

CVE-2022-31156

CVE-2022-31156 : Gradle’s dependency verification can skip checksum verification when signature verification cannot be performed. Affected versions: 6.2–7.4.2. If verification metadata contains only a gpg element (no checksum) or if there is no signature file on the remote repo, Gradle may accept...