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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-15 | Published 2026-04-21 | Updated 2026-04-22 | 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, < 1.11.1
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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