CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-54526
8.9 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.9 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Prior to 3.7.15 and 4.0.6, the allow-list fix for CVE-2026-31892 is incomplete because workflow/util/merge.go ValidateUserOverrides and SanitizeUserWorkflowSpec walk only the top-level fields of WorkflowSpec via reflection, and WorkflowSpec.ArtifactGC is allow-listed wholesale; the struct behind that field, WorkflowLevelArtifactGC, has a PodSpecPatch sub-field whose contents flow unmodified into util.ApplyPodSpecPatch on the artifact-GC pod, the same sink the original fix closed for WorkflowSpec.PodSpecPatch, so a user submitting a Workflow under templateReferencing: Strict or Secure (against a referenced WorkflowTemplate that declares an output artifact and setting spec.artifactGC.strategy: OnWorkflowCompletion) can still inject an arbitrary strategic merge patch into the artifact-GC pod, including hostPath volumes, privileged: true, arbitrary image and command, and hostNetwork: true, defeating the stated purpose of Strict/Secure reference mode. This issue is fixed in versions 3.7.15 and 4.0.6.
Affected configurations
• argoproj argo workflows (< 3.7.15)
• argoproj argo workflows (>= 4.0.0 < 4.0.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/commit/277e9cef0ad16d7eaaab253573d0695951a65dbd Patch
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/commit/358cc3968c8f06f1be0967e41df191088db0b662 Patch
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/releases/tag/v3.7.15 Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/releases/tag/v4.0.6 Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-48p8-g2fx-3wwm Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-48p8-g2fx-3wwm Exploit, Vendor Advisory