Bug 2460292 (CVE-2026-40938) - CVE-2026-40938 github.com/tektoncd/pipeline: Tekton Pipelines: Arbitrary code execution and secret exfiltration via malicious git commands
Summary: CVE-2026-40938 github.com/tektoncd/pipeline: Tekton Pipelines: Arbitrary code...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-40938
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-04-21 21:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-27 19:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-21 21:02:39 UTC
Tekton Pipelines project provides k8s-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. From 1.0.0 to before 1.11.0, 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.11.1.


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