High severity · published Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2026-40886
Argo Workflows: Unchecked annotation parsing in pod informer crashes Argo Workflows controller
7.7
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. From 3.6.5 to 4.0.4, an unchecked array index in the pod informer's podGCFromPod() function causes a controller-wide panic when a workflow pod carries a malformed workflows.argoproj.io/pod-gc-strategy annotation. Because the panic occurs inside an informer goroutine (outside the controller's recover() scope), it crashes the entire controller process. The poisoned pod persists across restarts, causing a crash loop that halts all workflow processing until the pod is manually deleted. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.5 and 3.7.14.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AR
argo-workflows · argoproj
>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5; >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.14; >= 3.6.5, <= 3.6.19 · source: vendor
AW
Argo Workflows · Argoproj
3.6.5 through 3.6.19; 3.7.0 before 3.7.14; 4.0.0 before 4.0.5 · source: NVD
Affected product
AR
argo-workflows
argoproj
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