CVE-2026-25542CWE-185

Tekton Pipelines: VerificationPolicy regex pattern bypass via substring matching

Medium · published April 21, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
31.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00386 · 31.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-185 · Incorrect Regular Expression
Published
2026-04-21T16:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 APR 16:05Z
    Tekton Pipelines: VerificationPolicy regex pattern bypass via substring matching
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