GHSA-rx35-6rhx-7858MediumCVSS 5.4

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

Published
April 21, 2026
Last Modified
May 22, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

### Summary 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. ### Details Tekton Pipelines restricts VolumeMount paths under `/tekton/` (except `/tekton/home`) to prevent users from interfering with internal execution state. The validation at `pkg/apis/pipeline/v1/container_validation.go` checks mount paths using `strings.HasPrefix` without normalizing the path first: ```go if strings.HasPrefix(vm.MountPath, "/tekton/") && !strings.HasPrefix(vm.MountPath, "/tekton/home") { // reject } ``` Because `/tekton/home` is an allowed prefix, a path like `/tekton/home/../results` passes both checks. At runtime, the container runtime resolves `..` and the actual mount point becomes `/tekton/results`. The same pattern exists in `pkg/apis/pipeline/v1beta1/task_validation.go`. ### Impact An authenticated user with Task or TaskRun creation permissions can mount volumes over internal Tekton paths, potentially: - Writing fake task results that downstream pipelines trust - Reading or modifying step scripts before execution - Interfering with entrypoint coordination state ### Patches _(to be filled: fixed in versions X.Y.Z)_ ### Workarounds - Use admission controllers (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno) to validate that VolumeMount paths do not contain `..` components. - In multi-tenant setups, restrict who can create Task and TaskRun resources via RBAC. ### Affected Versions All versions through **v1.10.0** (both `v1` and `v1beta1` APIs). ### Acknowledgments This vulnerability was reported by @kodareef5.

🎯 Affected products5

  • go/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline:>= 1.10.0, < 1.11.1
  • go/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline:>= 1.7.0, < 1.9.3
  • go/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline:>= 1.4.0, < 1.6.2
  • go/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline:>= 1.2.0, < 1.3.4
  • go/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline:>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.2

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