CVE-2026-409387.5HighCWE-88

CVE-2026-40938: Tekton Pipelines: Git Resolver Unsanitized Revision Parameter Enables git Argument Injection Leading to RCE

tektoncd · pipeline

Vendor fix available · Affected: tektoncd pipeline · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

0.8%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

56th percentile

050100

Higher than 56% of scored CVEs

7.5HighCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

Affected products1

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tektoncd · pipeline>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.2; >= 1.2.0, < 1.3.4; >= 1.4.0, < 1.6.2; >= 1.7.0, < 1.9.3; >= 1.10.0, < 1.11.1

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Exploitation: Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command · Command and Code Injection
Vendor: tektoncd
Published: April 2026
Band: Unlikely (under 1%), April 2026

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