gradle-8/8.14.1-r0: cve remediation

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gradle-8/8.14.1-r0: fix GHSA-vrpq-qp53-qv56

Advisory data: https://github.com/wolfi-dev/advisories/blob/main/gradle-8.advisories.yaml

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⚙️ Build Failed: Configuration

failed to parse the pom file: open pom.xml: no such file or directory

Build Details

Category	Details
Build System	Maven/Gradle
Failure Point	maven/pombump step

Root Cause Analysis 🔍

The build process is attempting to run the 'pombump' tool, which expects to find a pom.xml file, but this file is not present in the repository. This is likely a misconfiguration in the build pipeline, as Gradle projects typically use build.gradle files rather than pom.xml files for project configuration. The pipeline is trying to use Maven tooling on a Gradle project.

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🔍 Build failure fix suggestions

Found similar build failures that have been fixed in the past and analyzed them to suggest a fix:

Similar PRs with fixes

• cassandra-5.0/5.0.3-r0: cve remediation #42330
• selenium/4.28.0-r0: cve remediation #42311

Suggested Changes

File: gradle-8.yaml

• remove at line 43
  Original:

  - uses: maven/pombump

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Analysis

The common pattern in both similar fixed build failures is that the build process is trying to use the maven/pombump step in a project that doesn't use Maven as its build system. In both cases, the fix involved either:

1. Specifying a custom path to a POM file when the project uses a different build system (Ant in Cassandra's case)
2. Removing the maven/pombump step entirely when it's not needed (Selenium using Bazel)

The current build failure shows the same pattern - Gradle is using build.gradle files for its build configuration, not pom.xml files. The pipeline is incorrectly trying to use Maven tooling (pombump) on a Gradle project.

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Explanation

The build is failing because the Melange YAML file includes a maven/pombump step, but the Gradle project does not use Maven and therefore has no pom.xml file for this step to work with. The error message "failed to parse the pom file: open pom.xml: no such file or directory" confirms this.

Removing the maven/pombump step is the most appropriate fix because:

1. Gradle and Maven are different build systems - Gradle uses build.gradle files while Maven uses pom.xml files
2. The Gradle build process already properly uses the Gradle wrapper (./gradlew) to build the distribution
3. The similar fixed examples show that when a project doesn't use Maven, the solution is either to remove the pombump step or to explicitly point it to a valid POM file
4. Since Gradle doesn't use POM files at all, there's no valid POM file to point to, so removal is the best option

After removing this step, the build process will skip the attempt to manipulate Maven dependencies via the pombump tool and proceed directly to the patch step and then the actual Gradle build.

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Alternative Approaches

• If there are specific third-party dependencies that need to be updated (which is what the pombump tool is designed to handle), you could create a custom patch file to update those dependencies directly in the build.gradle files instead
• If Maven dependency management is actually needed for some components, you could create a minimal pom.xml file that contains just the dependencies that need to be managed and point the pombump step to that file using the 'pom' parameter

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