GHSA-rx35-6rhx-7858MediumCVSS 5.4
Tekton Pipelines: VolumeMount path restriction bypass via missing filepath.Clean in /tekton/ check
🔗 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