CVE-2026-40938

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.
Configurations

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cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:tekton_pipelines:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*

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Information

Published : 2026-04-21 21:16

Updated : 2026-08-24 13:18


NVD link : CVE-2026-40938

Mitre link : CVE-2026-40938

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-40938


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Products Affected

linuxfoundation

  • tekton_pipelines
CWE
CWE-88

Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')