# CVE-2026-52833: Nuclio: Unsanitized runtimeAttributes.repositories injected into Groovy build.gradle leads to build-time RCE

- Also known as: GO-2026-6004, GHSA-3V79-M2CG-89WW
- Severity: CVSS 8.0 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.16.5
- Published: 2026-09-02 · Updated: 2026-09-02

## Affected

- nuclio: fixed in 1.16.5
- github.com/nuclio/nuclio (Go): all versions
- github.com/nuclio/nuclio (Go): fixed in 1.16.5

## Description

Nuclio is a "Serverless" framework for Real-Time Events and Data Processing. Prior to version 1.16.5, Nuclio's Java runtime generates a build.gradle file during function builds using Go's text/template package. The template renders runtimeAttributes.repositories[] values with the {{ . }} action, which performs no escaping. An attacker can embed a closing brace (}) to break out of the repositories {} block and append arbitrary Groovy statements that execute unconditionally during the Gradle configuration phase. This issue has been patched in version 1.16.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nuclio, github.com/nuclio/nuclio, upgrade to a fixed version (1.16.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio/security/advisories/GHSA-3v79-m2cg-89ww
- https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio/pull/4149
- https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio/commit/4c78040c759068e927f3ed7c6507543c15d4ae56
- https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio/releases/tag/1.16.5

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