What is CVE-2019-16370?

CVE-2019-16370 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gradle, classified under Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2019-09-16.

How severe is CVE-2019-16370?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-16370 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Gradle

CVE-2019-16370

The PGP signing plugin in Gradle before 6.0 relies on the SHA-1 algorithm, which might allow an attacker to replace an artifact with a different one that has the same SHA-1 message digest, a related issue to CVE-2005-4900.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

Published 2019-09-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 62nd percentile — 62.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Gradle

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-327 — Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/10543 (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/gradle/gradle/commit/425b2b7a50cd84106a77cdf1ab665c89c6b14d2f (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-16370?: CVE-2019-16370 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gradle, classified under Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2019-09-16.
How severe is CVE-2019-16370?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-16370 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.