CVE-2026-25542 PUBLISHED

Tekton Pipelines: VerificationPolicy regex pattern bypass via substring matching

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 02.02.2026 Published: 21.04.2026 Updated: 21.04.2026

Tekton Pipelines project provides k8s-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. From 0.43.0 to 1.11.0, 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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor tektoncd
Product pipeline
Versions
  • Version >= 0.43.0, <= 1.11.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-185: Incorrect Regular Expression CWE