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CVE-2026-25542

Tekton Pipelines: VerificationPolicy regex pattern bypass via substring matching

Medium6.5EPSS 0.26%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
GitHub_M

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.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By GitHub_M

  2. · 3 months later

    Published

  3. · 31 days later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2026-25542, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
GitHub_MCNA (assigner)3.1Medium6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Medium6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.26% · top 82% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

Affected products

  • tektoncd · pipeline

    • affected >= 0.43.0, < 1.0.2
    • affected >= 1.2.0, < 1.3.4
    • affected >= 1.4.0, < 1.6.2
    • affected >= 1.7.0, < 1.9.3
    • affected >= 1.10.0, < 1.11.1

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References (2)

Sources

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