Medium severity · published Mar 29, 2024
CVE-2024-29893
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes
6.5
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. All versions of ArgoCD starting from v2.4 have a bug where the ArgoCD repo-server component is vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service attack vector. Specifically, it's possible to crash the repo server component through an out of memory error by pointing it to a malicious Helm registry. The loadRepoIndex() function in the ArgoCD's helm package, does not limit the size nor time while fetching the data. It fetches it and creates a byte slice from the retrieved data in one go. If the registry is implemented to push data continuously, the repo server will keep allocating memory until it runs out of it. A patch for this vulnerability has been released in v2.10.3, v2.9.8, and v2.8.12.
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)1.0% · higher than 62% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AC
Argo CD · Argoproj
2.4.0 before 2.8.14; 2.9.0 before 2.9.10; 2.10.0 before 2.10.5 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29893
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29893
Patch
https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/14f681e3ee7c38731943b98f92277e88a3db109d
Patch
https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/36b8a12a38f8d92d55bffc81deed44389bf6eb59
Patch
https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/3e5a878f6e30d935fa149723ea2a2e93748fcddd
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3
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