CVE-2026-40924

MEDIUM

Tekton Pipelines: HTTP Resolver Unbounded Response Body Read Enables Denial of Service via Memory Exhaustion

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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 HTTP resolver's FetchHttpResource function calls io.ReadAll(resp.Body) with no response body size limit. Any tenant with permission to create TaskRuns or PipelineRuns that reference the HTTP resolver can point it at an attacker-controlled HTTP server that returns a very large response body within the 1-minute timeout window, causing the tekton-pipelines-resolvers pod to be OOM-killed by Kubernetes. Because all resolver types (Git, Hub, Bundle, Cluster, HTTP) run in the same pod, crashing this pod denies resolution service to the entire cluster. Repeated exploitation causes a sustained crash loop. The same vulnerable code path is reached by both the deprecated pkg/resolution/resolver/http and the current pkg/remoteresolution/resolver/http implementations. Versions 1.0.2, 1.3.4, 1.6.2, 1.9.3, and 1.11.1 fix the issue.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 23.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (12)
linuxfoundation/tekton_pipelines < 1.11.1
tektoncd/pipeline 1.0.0 - 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 < 1.11.1
tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.0.0, < 1.0.2
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 22, 2026