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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-rmx9-2pp3-xhcr Tekton Pipelines has VerificationPolicy regex pattern bypass via substring matching
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Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Tektoncd
Tektoncd pipeline
Vendors & Products Tektoncd
Tektoncd pipeline

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Tekton Pipelines: VerificationPolicy regex pattern bypass via substring matching
Weaknesses CWE-185
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-21T16:48:15.671Z

Reserved: 2026-02-02T19:59:47.375Z

Link: CVE-2026-25542

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-04-21T16:48:11.309Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-21T17:16:24.213

Modified: 2026-04-21T17:16:24.213

Link: CVE-2026-25542

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-21T17:30:37Z

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