CVE-2023-35946

Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for
multi-language development. When Gradle writes a dependency into its
dependency cache, it uses the dependency’s coordinates to compute a file
location. With specially crafted dependency coordinates, Gradle can be made
to write files into an unintended location. The file may be written outside
the dependency cache or over another file in the dependency cache. This
vulnerability could be used to poison the dependency cache or overwrite
important files elsewhere on the filesystem where the Gradle process has
write permissions. Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to
have control over a dependency repository used by the Gradle build or have
the ability to modify the build’s configuration. It is unlikely that this
would go unnoticed. A fix has been released in Gradle 7.6.2 and 8.2 to
protect against this vulnerability. Gradle will refuse to cache
dependencies that have path traversal elements in their dependency
coordinates. It is recommended that users upgrade to a patched version. If
you are unable to upgrade to Gradle 7.6.2 or 8.2, dependency verification
will make this vulnerability more difficult to exploit.