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Tekton Pipelines project provides k8s-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. Starting in version 1.0.0 and prior to versions 1.0.2, 1.3.4, 1.6.2, 1.9.3, and 1.11.1, 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. Versions 1.0.2, 1.3.4, 1.6.2, 1.9.3, and 1.11.1 fix the issue.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-15 | Published 2026-04-21 | Updated 2026-05-21 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

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

Product status

>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.2
affected

>= 1.2.0, < 1.3.4
affected

>= 1.4.0, < 1.6.2
affected

>= 1.7.0, < 1.9.3
affected

>= 1.10.0, < 1.11.1
affected

References

github.com/...peline/security/advisories/GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq exploit

github.com/...peline/security/advisories/GHSA-94jr-7pqp-xhcq

github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/releases/tag/v1.11.1

cve.org (CVE-2026-40938)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-40938)

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