CVE-2026-25542

MEDIUM

Tekton Pipelines: VerificationPolicy regex pattern bypass via substring matching

Title source: cna

Description

Tekton Pipelines project provides k8s-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. From 0.43.0 to 1.11.0, 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 8.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-185
Status published
Products (2)
tektoncd/pipeline 0.43.0 - 1.11.0Go
tektoncd/pipeline >= 0.43.0, <= 1.11.0
Published Apr 21, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 21, 2026