CI Runners Suddenly Failing with 403 Forbidden for Maven/Gradle Repositories (ubuntu-latest)
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Description
Since today, our CI pipelines running on ubuntu-latest and other hosted runners have started failing while downloading dependencies from Maven/Gradle repositories, returning HTTP 403 Forbidden errors.
Observed Behavior : Maven/Gradle dependency resolution fails with 403 Forbidden
Happens consistently on: ubuntu-latest
Affected tools:
Maven
Gradle
Example error:
Could not transfer artifact ...
Received status code 403 from server
Its critical can someone help promptly.
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Research direction
No repository file, test, or entry point is identified. Start by reproducing dependency resolution on ubuntu-latest with Maven and Gradle, then inspect the runner and repository responses around the 403 failures. Done means the failure cause is isolated and a verified resolution or clear escalation is documented.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github-actions
- Domain
- ci-cd, devops
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100