Medium severity · published Mar 20, 2026
CVE-2026-33022
Tekton Pipelines: Controller can panic when setting long resolver names in TaskRun/PipelineRun
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Tekton Pipelines project provides k8s-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. Versions 0.60.0 through 1.0.0, 1.1.0 through 1.3.2, 1.4.0 through 1.6.0, 1.7.0 through 1.9.0, 1.10.0, and 1.10.1 have a denial-of-service vulnerability in that allows any user who can create a TaskRun or PipelineRun to crash the controller cluster-wide by setting .spec.taskRef.resolver (or .spec.pipelineRef.resolver) to a string of 31+ characters. The crash occurs because GenerateDeterministicNameFromSpec produces a name exceeding the 63-character DNS-1123 label limit, and its truncation logic panics on a [-1] slice bound since the generated name contains no spaces. Once crashed, the controller enters a CrashLoopBackOff on restart (as it re-reconciles the offending resource), blocking all CI/CD reconciliation until the resource is manually deleted. Built-in resolvers (git, cluster, bundles, hub) are unaffected due to their short names, but any custom resolver name triggers the bug. The fix truncates the resolver-name prefix instead of the full string, preserving the hash suffix for determinism and uniqueness. This issue has been patched in versions 1.0.1, 1.3.3, 1.6.1, 1.9.2 and 1.10.2.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 31% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PI
pipeline · tektoncd
>= 0.60.0, < 1.0.1; >= 1.1.0, < 1.3.3; >= 1.4.0, < 1.6.1; >= 1.7.0, < 1.9.2; >= 1.10.0, < 1.10.2 · source: vendor
TP
Tekton Pipelines · Linuxfoundation
0.60.0 before 1.0.1; 1.1.0 before 1.3.3; 1.4.0 before 1.6.1; 1.7.0 before 1.9.2; 1.10.0 before 1.10.2 · source: NVD
Affected product
PI
pipeline
tektoncd
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