CVE-2026-40923 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-40923: Tekton Pipelines: VolumeMount path restriction bypass via missing filepath.Clean in /tekton/ check

Vendor Tektoncd
Product pipeline
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published April 21, 2026
Last update May 22, 2026

CVSS base score

5.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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, a validation bypass in the VolumeMount path restriction allows mounting volumes under restricted /tekton/ internal paths by using .. path traversal components. The restriction check uses strings.HasPrefix without filepath.Clean, so a path like /tekton/home/../results passes validation but resolves to /tekton/results at runtime. Versions 1.0.2, 1.3.4, 1.6.2, 1.9.3, and 1.11.1 fix the issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 21, 2026 CVE published
May 22, 2026 Record updated

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