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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-40938 EUVD-2026-24491GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcqGO-2026-5272

Tekton Pipelines: Git Resolver Unsanitized Revision Parameter Enables git Argument Injection Leading to RCE

Published Apr 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 7, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tektoncd pipeline >= 1.0.0, < 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 0.26.3-r0 —
Wolfi rolling tkn 0.44.1-r4 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.10.0, < 1.11.1 1.11.1 GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.7.0, < 1.9.3 1.9.3 GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.4.0, < 1.6.2 1.6.2 GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.2.0, < 1.3.4 1.3.4 GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.0.0, < 1.0.2 1.0.2 GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq
Go github.com/tektoncd/pipeline >= 1.0.0, < 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-2026-5272

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