CVE-2024-40634

Description

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. This report details a security vulnerability in Argo CD, where an unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted large JSON payload to the /api/webhook endpoint, causing excessive memory allocation that leads to service disruption by triggering an Out Of Memory (OOM) kill. The issue poses a high risk to the availability of Argo CD deployments. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.11.6, 2.10.15, and 2.9.20.

References

https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-jmvp-698c-4x3w

https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/d881ee78949e23160a0b280bb159e4d3d625a4df

https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/540e3a57b90eb3655db54793332fac86bcc38b36

https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/46c0c0b64deaab1ece70cb701030b76668ad0cdc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3