CVE-2023-42445

Name	CVE-2023-42445
Description	Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. In some cases, when Gradle parses XML files, resolving XML external entities is not disabled. Combined with an Out Of Band XXE attack (OOB-XXE), just parsing XML can lead to exfiltration of local text files to a remote server. Gradle parses XML files for several purposes. Most of the time, Gradle parses XML files it generated or were already present locally. Only Ivy XML descriptors and Maven POM files can be fetched from remote repositories and parsed by Gradle. In Gradle 7.6.3 and 8.4, resolving XML external entities has been disabled for all use cases to protect against this vulnerability. Gradle will now refuse to parse XML files that have XML external entities.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1055176

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
gradle (PTS)	jessie	1.5-2	vulnerable
	stretch	3.2.1-1	vulnerable
	buster	4.4.1-6	vulnerable
	bullseye	4.4.1-13	vulnerable
	bookworm	4.4.1-18	vulnerable
	trixie, sid	4.4.1-20	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Debian Bugs
gradle	source	jessie	(unfixed)	end-of-life
gradle	source	stretch	(unfixed)	end-of-life
gradle	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)		1055176

Notes

[bookworm] - gradle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - gradle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - gradle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/security/advisories/GHSA-mrff-q8qj-xvg8