CVE-2026-25542

MEDIUM

Tekton Pipelines: VerificationPolicy regex pattern bypass via substring matching

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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 v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 17.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-185
Status published
Products (12)
linuxfoundation/tekton_pipelines 0.43.0 - 1.11.0
tektoncd/pipeline 0.43.0 - 1.0.2Go
tektoncd/pipeline 1.10.0 - 1.11.1Go
tektoncd/pipeline 1.2.0 - 1.3.4Go
tektoncd/pipeline 1.4.0 - 1.6.2Go
tektoncd/pipeline 1.7.0 - 1.9.3Go
tektoncd/pipeline >= 0.43.0, < 1.0.2
tektoncd/pipeline >= 0.43.0, <= 1.11.0
tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.10.0, < 1.11.1
tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.2.0, < 1.3.4
... and 2 more
Published Apr 21, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 21, 2026