CVE-2026-25542
MEDIUMDescription
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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CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 18% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
Other CWE-185 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all
| CVE | Severity | CVSS | EPSS | Exploited | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2020-11034 | Medium | 6.1 | 7.6% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2015-8388 | High | 7.5 | 6.6% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2018-7536 | Medium | 5.3 | 4.6% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2018-7537 | Medium | 5.3 | 4.5% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2015-8389 | Critical | 9.8 | 3.9% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2018-7158 | High | 7.5 | 3.4% | - | Fix |
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