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CVE-2026-40938: Tekton Pipeline: Git Resolver Unsanitized Revision Parameter Enables git Argument Injection Leading to RCE

April 21, 2026

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.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq
  • github.com/tektoncd/pipeline
  • github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/releases/tag/v1.11.1
  • github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/security/advisories/GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40938

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.0.0 before 1.11.1

Fixed versions

  • 1.11.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.11.1 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-88: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

Source file

go/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/CVE-2026-40938.yml

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