Description of problem:
The gradle wrapper "gradlew" is a common way to package a build management tool with the source of a Java program. When executing gradlew on Fedora with installed openjdk, the tool crashes with the following stack trace:

[user@linux directory]$ ./gradlew clean
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.1-bin.zip

Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path validation failed: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: signature check failed
	at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1949)
	at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:302)
	at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:296)
	at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1509)
	at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:216)
	at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:979)
	at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Handshaker.java:914)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1062)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1375)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1403)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1387)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:559)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:185)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.followRedirect0(HttpURLConnection.java:2701)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.followRedirect(HttpURLConnection.java:2623)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1806)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1474)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:254)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.downloadInternal(Download.java:58)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.download(Download.java:44)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:61)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:48)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.ExclusiveFileAccessManager.access(ExclusiveFileAccessManager.java:69)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.createDist(Install.java:48)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:107)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:61)
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path validation failed: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: signature check failed
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doValidate(PKIXValidator.java:352)
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:249)
	at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:260)
	at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:324)
	at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:229)
	at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:124)
	at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1491)
	... 22 more
Caused by: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: signature check failed
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXMasterCertPathValidator.validate(PKIXMasterCertPathValidator.java:135)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXCertPathValidator.validate(PKIXCertPathValidator.java:219)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXCertPathValidator.validate(PKIXCertPathValidator.java:140)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXCertPathValidator.engineValidate(PKIXCertPathValidator.java:79)
	at java.security.cert.CertPathValidator.validate(CertPathValidator.java:292)
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doValidate(PKIXValidator.java:347)
	... 28 more
Caused by: java.security.SignatureException: Signature does not match.
	at sun.security.x509.X509CertImpl.verify(X509CertImpl.java:449)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.BasicChecker.verifySignature(BasicChecker.java:166)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.BasicChecker.check(BasicChecker.java:147)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXMasterCertPathValidator.validate(PKIXMasterCertPathValidator.java:125)
	... 33 more

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openjdk-1.8.0.111-5.b16.fc25.x86_64

How reproducible:
1. Check out an arbitrary git repository containing gradlew (e.g. git clone https://github.com/phxql/argon2-jvm)
2. Enter the directory (cd argon2-jvm)
3. Execute the gradle wrapper (./gradlew)

Result: An SSL exception is thrown
Expectation: The gradle distribution is downloaded

Additional info:
I tried this with some other distros (Arch, Ubuntu), running the most current version of openjdk-1.8.0. This seems to be a problem within the Fedora package of the openjdk, since it works flawlessly on all other machines I tried, but all Fedora machines reproducible threw the above mentioned exception.