CVE-2026-40938HIGH 8.5EPSS p39.7%

CVE-2026-40938CVE-2026-40938

Description

Tekton Pipelines project provides k8s-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. Starting in version 1.0.0 and prior to versions 1.0.2, 1.3.4, 1.6.2, 1.9.3, and 1.11.1, the git resolver's revision parameter is passed directly as a positional argument to git fetch without any validation that it does not begin with a - character. Because git parses flags from mixed positional arguments, an attacker can inject arbitrary git fetch flags such as --upload-pack=<binary>. Combined with the validateRepoURL function explicitly permitting URLs that begin with / (local filesystem paths), a tenant who can submit ResolutionRequest objects can chain these two behaviors to execute an arbitrary binary on the resolver pod. The tekton-pipelines-resolvers ServiceAccount holds cluster-wide get/list/watch on all Secrets, so code execution on the resolver pod enables full cluster-wide secret exfiltration. Versions 1.0.2, 1.3.4, 1.6.2, 1.9.3, and 1.11.1 fix the issue.

Scoring

CVSS 3.18.5 (HIGH)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS0.52% probability of exploitation · percentile 39.7% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z
Published2026-04-21
Last modified2026-05-21

Underlying weaknesses· 1

CWE-88

References

  1. https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/releases/tag/v1.11.1
  2. https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/security/advisories/GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq
  3. https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/security/advisories/GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq

1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessImproper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')cwe-880%live

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