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# Gradle Wrapper Validation Action
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This action validates the checksums of _all_ [Gradle Wrapper](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.html) JAR files present in the repository and fails if any unknown Gradle Wrapper JAR files are found.
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The action should be run in the root of the repository, as it will recursively search for any files named `gradle-wrapper.jar`.
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> [!NOTE]
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> Starting with v4 the `setup-gradle` action will automatically [perform wrapper validation](../docs/setup-gradle.md#gradle-wrapper-validation)
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> on each execution.
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> If you are using `setup-gradle` in your workflows, it is unlikely that you will need to use the `wrapper-validation` action.
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## The Gradle Wrapper Problem in Open Source
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The `gradle-wrapper.jar` is a binary blob of executable code that is checked into nearly
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[2.8 Million GitHub Repositories](https://github.com/search?l=&q=filename%3Agradle-wrapper.jar&type=Code).
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Searching across GitHub you can find many pull requests (PRs) with helpful titles like 'Update to Gradle xxx'.
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Many of these PRs are contributed by individuals outside of the organization maintaining the project.
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Many maintainers are incredibly grateful for these kinds of contributions as it takes an item off of their backlog.
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We assume that most maintainers do not consider the security implications of accepting the Gradle Wrapper binary from external contributors.
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There is a certain amount of blind trust open source maintainers have.
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Further compounding the issue is that maintainers are most often greeted in these PRs with a diff to the `gradle-wrapper.jar` that looks like this.
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A fairly simple social engineering supply chain attack against open source would be contribute a helpful “Updated to Gradle xxx” PR that contains malicious code hidden inside this binary JAR.
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A malicious `gradle-wrapper.jar` could execute, download, or install arbitrary code while otherwise behaving like a completely normal `gradle-wrapper.jar`.
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## Solution
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We have created a simple GitHub Action that can be applied to any GitHub repository.
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This GitHub Action will do one simple task:
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verify that any and all `gradle-wrapper.jar` files in the repository match the SHA-256 checksums of any of our official releases.
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If any are found that do not match the SHA-256 checksums of our official releases, the action will fail.
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Additionally, the action will find and SHA-256 hash all
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[homoglyph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph)
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variants of files named `gradle-wrapper.jar`,
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for example a file named `gradlе-wrapper.jar` (which uses a Cyrillic `е` instead of `e`).
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The goal is to prevent homoglyph attacks which may be very difficult to spot in a GitHub diff.
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We created an example [Homoglyph attack PR here](https://github.com/JLLeitschuh/playframework/pull/1/files).
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## Usage
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### Add to an existing Workflow
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Simply add this action to your workflow **after** having checked out your source tree and **before** running any Gradle build:
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```yaml
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uses: gradle/actions/wrapper-validation@v4
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```
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This action step should precede any step using `gradle/gradle-build-action` or `gradle/actions/setup-gradle`.
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### Add a new dedicated Workflow
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Here's a sample complete workflow you can add to your repositories:
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**`.github/workflows/gradle-wrapper-validation.yml`**
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```yaml
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name: "Validate Gradle Wrapper"
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on:
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push:
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pull_request:
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jobs:
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validation:
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name: "Validation"
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runs-on: ubuntu-latest
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steps:
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- uses: actions/checkout@v4
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- uses: gradle/actions/wrapper-validation@v4
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```
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## Contributing to an external GitHub Repository
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Since [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/features/actions)
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are completely free for open source projects and are automatically enabled on almost all projects,
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adding this check to a project's build is as simple as contributing a PR.
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Enabling the check requires no overhead on behalf of the project maintainer beyond merging the action.
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You can add this action to your favorite Gradle based project without checking out their source locally via the
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GitHub Web UI thanks to the 'Create new file' button.
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Simply add a new file named `.github/workflows/gradle-wrapper-validation.yml` with the contents mentioned above.
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We recommend the message commit contents of:
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- Title: `Official Gradle Wrapper Validation Action`
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- Body (at minimum): `See: https://github.com/gradle/actions/wrapper-validation`
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From there, you can easily follow the rest of the prompts to create a Pull Request against the project.
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## Validation Failures
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A wrapper jar can fail validation for a few reasons:
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1. The wrapper is from a snapshot build of Gradle (nightly or release nightly) and you have not set `allow-snapshots`
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or `allow-snapshot-wrappers` to `true`.
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2. The wrapper jar is from a version of Gradle with an unverifiable wrapper jar (see below).
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3. The wrapper jar was not published by Gradle, and could be compromised.
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If this GitHub action fails because a `gradle-wrapper.jar` was not published by Gradle,
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we highly recommend that you reach out to us at [security@gradle.com](mailto:security@gradle.com).
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#### Unverifiable Wrapper Jars
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Wrapper Jars generated by Gradle versions `3.3` to `4.0` are not verifiable because those files were dynamically generated by Gradle in a non-reproducible way. It's not possible to verify the `gradle-wrapper.jar` for those versions are legitimate using a hash comparison. If you have a validation failure, you should try to determine if the `gradle-wrapper.jar` was generated by one of these versions before running the build.
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- If the Gradle version in `gradle-wrapper.properties` is outside of this range, you can regenerate the `gradle-wrapper.jar` by running `./gradlew wrapper`. This will generate a new, verifiable wrapper jar.
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- If you need to run your build with a version of Gradle between 3.3 and 4.0, you can use a newer version of Gradle to generate the `gradle-wrapper.jar`.
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## Resources
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To learn more about verifying the Gradle Wrapper JAR locally, see our
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[guide on the topic](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.html#wrapper_checksum_verification).
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