GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-xrqc-7xgx-c9vh RCE via ZipSlip and symbolic links in argoproj/argo-workflows
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-66626
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3, github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-23, CWE-59, CWE-78
- Reviewed
- 2025-12-09
Affected packages
• Go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3: >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.5 → fixed in 3.7.5
• Go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3: < 3.6.14 → fixed in 3.6.14
• Go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows: <= 2.5.3-rc4 (no fix yet)
Description
Summary
The patch deployed against CVE-2025-62156 is ineffective against malicious archives containing symbolic links.
Details
The untar code that handles symbolic links in archives is unsafe. Concretely, the computation of the link's target and the subsequent check are flawed:
https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/blob/5291e0b01f94ba864f96f795bb500f2cfc5ad799/workflow/executor/executor.go#L1034-L1037
PoC
1. Create a malicious archive containing two files: a symbolik link with path "./work/foo" and target "/etc", and a normal text file with path "./work/foo/hostname".
2. Deploy a workflow like the one in https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-p84v-gxvw-73pf with the malicious archive mounted at /work/tmp.
3. Submit the workflow and wait for its execution.
4. Connect to the corresponding pod and observe that the file "/etc/hostname" was altered by the untar operation performed on the malicious archive. The attacker can hence alter arbitrary files in this way.
Impact
The attacker can overwrite the file /var/run/argo/argoexec with a script of their choice, which will be executed at the pod's start.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-66626 Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-xrqc-7xgx-c9vh web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66626 advisory
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/commit/6b92af23f35aed4d4de8b04adcaf19d68f006de1 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p84v-gxvw-73pf advisory
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows package
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/blob/5291e0b01f94ba864f96f795bb500f2cfc5ad799/workflow/executor/executor.go#L1034-L1037 web