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CVE-2023-26053

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-26053 is a critical collision attack vulnerability affecting Gradle versions prior to 8.0, 6.9.4, and 7.6.1, specifically impacting users of dependency verification who utilize long PGP key IDs. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, users are strongly advised to upgrade Gradle or use full fingerprint IDs as a workaround to mitigate this severe risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.2.0, < 6.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gradle:gradle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gradle:gradle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.6MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.7
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0100 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-26053Moderate

gradle: usage of long IDs for PGP keys is unsafe and is subject to collision attacks

Feb 28, 2023

References

github.com / gradle/gradle/commit/bf3cc0f2b463033037e67aaacda31291643ea1a9
Patch
github.com / gradle/gradle/security/advisories/GHSA-c724-3xg7-g3hf
Vendor Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230413-0002