CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-40634
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-07-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
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.
Affected configurations
• argoproj argo cd (>= 1.0.0 < 2.9.20)
• argoproj argo cd (>= 2.10.0 < 2.10.15)
• argoproj argo cd (>= 2.11.0 < 2.11.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/46c0c0b64deaab1ece70cb701030b76668ad0cdc Patch
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/540e3a57b90eb3655db54793332fac86bcc38b36 Patch
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/d881ee78949e23160a0b280bb159e4d3d625a4df Patch
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-jmvp-698c-4x3w Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/46c0c0b64deaab1ece70cb701030b76668ad0cdc Patch
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/540e3a57b90eb3655db54793332fac86bcc38b36 Patch
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/d881ee78949e23160a0b280bb159e4d3d625a4df Patch
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-jmvp-698c-4x3w Exploit, Vendor Advisory