CVE-2026-25542
Tekton Pipelines: VerificationPolicy regex pattern bypass via substring matching
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Apr 21, 2026
- Updated
- May 22, 2026
- Reserved
- Feb 2, 2026
Description
Tekton Pipelines project provides k8s-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. Starting in version 0.43.0 and prior to versions 1.0.2, 1.3.4, 1.6.2, 1.9.3, and 1.11.1, trusted resources verification policies match a resource source string (refSource.URI) against spec.resources[].pattern using regexp.MatchString. In Go, regexp.MatchString reports a match if the pattern matches anywhere in the string, so common unanchored patterns (including examples in tekton documentation) can be bypassed by attacker-controlled source strings that contain the trusted pattern as a substring. This can cause an unintended policy match and change which verification mode/keys apply. Versions 1.0.2, 1.3.4, 1.6.2, 1.9.3, and 1.11.1 fix the issue.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-185 Incorrect Regular Expression
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
pipelinetektoncd |
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References
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