CVE-2026-75598: Gradle Shadow: Zip Slip path traversal in ShadowCopyAction — no independent entry-name sanitization
### Summary ShadowCopyAction in the Shadow plugin does not validate or sanitize ZIP entry names before writing them to the output fat JAR. A malicious upstream dependency containing path traversal sequences (e.g. `../../../../tmp/pwned.txt`) in entry names will have those entries reproduced verbatim in the output shadow JAR. ### Details The vulnerability exists because Shadow relies entirely on Gradle's ZipFileTree for entry sanitization rather than implementing its own path validation. This means: 1. Users on Gradle < 7.6.2 / 8.x < 8.2.0 are directly exploitable 2. The produced shadow JAR becomes a Zip Slip weapon against any downstream consumer using unprotected extraction (raw ZipInputStream, older CI tooling, custom Java unpackers) 3. If Shadow ever uses a non-ZipFileTree code path, protection disappears silently Affected file: `src/main/kotlin/com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/internal/ShadowCopyAction.kt` ### PoC 1. Create a malicious JAR with path traversal entry: ```python import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile('evil.jar', 'w') as zf: zf.writestr('../../../../tmp/zipslip_proof.txt', 'pwned') ``` 2. Add as dependency in a shadow project 3. Run `gradle shadowJar` 4. Run `unzip -l build/libs/*.jar | grep "\.\."` 5. Traversal entry survives in output JAR ### Impact Any tool extracting the shadow JAR with unprotected extraction is subject to arbitrary file overwrite. Users on older Gradle versions are directly vulnerable at build time.
Started
Nov 9, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC
Status
Ongoing
Elapsed
7h 58m
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