CVE-2026-75598
Received Received - Intake

Path Traversal in Gradle Shadow Plugin

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-75598, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-11-06

Last updated on: 2026-11-06

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

The Gradle Shadow plugin creates fat or uber JARs and supports file transformation and package relocation. Prior to version 9.6.0, Shadow does not independently validate ZIP entry names before writing them to its output archive. A malicious dependency can cause traversal entry names to be preserved when the applicable archive-processing path does not reject them. Some affected Shadow implementations process dependency archives directly, so upgrading Gradle alone does not universally prevent this behavior. If the resulting archive is extracted without path traversal protection, attacker-controlled files can be written outside the intended destination. This issue is fixed in version 9.6.0.

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Published
2026-11-06
Last Modified
2026-11-06
Generated
2026-11-06
EPSS Evaluated
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gradle shadow 9.5.1
gradle shadow 9.6.0
gradle shadow From 9.6.0 (exc)
gradle shadow to 9.5.1 (exc)

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CWE-22 The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.

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