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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-25542 EUVD-2026-24151GHSA-rmx9-2pp3-xhcrGO-2026-5630

Tekton Pipelines: VerificationPolicy regex pattern bypass via substring matching

Published Apr 21, 2026 · Updated May 22, 2026 · 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tektoncd pipeline >= 0.43.0, < 1.0.2, >= 1.2.0, < 1.3.4, >= 1.4.0, < 1.6.2, >= 1.7.0, < 1.9.3, >= 1.10.0, < 1.11.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling tekton-chains 0.27.0-r0 —
Wolfi rolling tkn 0.44.1-r4 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 0.43.0, < 1.0.2 1.0.2 GHSA-rmx9-2pp3-xhcr
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.2.0, < 1.3.4 1.3.4 GHSA-rmx9-2pp3-xhcr
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.4.0, < 1.6.2 1.6.2 GHSA-rmx9-2pp3-xhcr
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.7.0, < 1.9.3 1.9.3 GHSA-rmx9-2pp3-xhcr
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.10.0, < 1.11.1 1.11.1 GHSA-rmx9-2pp3-xhcr
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 0.43.0, < 1.0.2 · >= 1.1.0, < 1.3.4 · >= 1.4.0, < 1.6.2 · >= 1.7.0, < 1.9.3 · >= 1.10.0, < 1.11.1 1.0.2, 1.3.4, 1.6.2, 1.9.3, 1.11.1 GO-2026-5630

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