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TI-2024-19661 Aliases CVE-2024-29893GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ArgoCD's repo server

Priority LOW 31CWE-400Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. All versions of ArgoCD starting from v2.4 have a bug where the ArgoCD repo-server component is vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service attack vector. Specifically, it's possible to crash the repo server component through an out of memory error by pointing it to a malicious Helm registry. The loadRepoIndex() function in the ArgoCD's helm package, does not limit the size nor time while fetching the data. It fetches it and creates a byte slice from the retrieved data in one go. If the registry is implemented to push data continuously, the repo server will keep allocating memory until it runs out of it. A patch for this vulnerability has been released in v2.10.3, v2.9.8, and v2.8.12.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00972 62nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed argo-cd (argoproj): 2.8.14, 2.9.10, 2.10.5github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 (Go): 2.8.14, 2.9.10, 2.10.5Red Hat: 4 advisories

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
argoprojargo-cd2.4.0 to before 2.8.14; 2.9.0 to before 2.9.10; 2.10.0 to before 2.10.52.8.14, 2.9.10, 2.10.5Patch availableCNA
—github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 (Go)2.4.0 to before 2.8.142.8.14Patch availableGHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3
—github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 (Go)2.9.0 to before 2.9.102.9.10Patch availableGHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3
—github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 (Go)2.10.0 to before 2.10.52.10.5Patch availableGHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3
  • argo-cd Vendorargoproj Affected 2.4.0 to before 2.8.14; 2.9.0 to before 2.9.10; 2.10.0 to before 2.10.5 Fixed in 2.8.14, 2.9.10, 2.10.5 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 (Go) Vendor— Affected 2.4.0 to before 2.8.14 Fixed in 2.8.14 Patch available GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3
  • github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 (Go) Vendor— Affected 2.9.0 to before 2.9.10 Fixed in 2.9.10 Patch available GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3
  • github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 (Go) Vendor— Affected 2.10.0 to before 2.10.5 Fixed in 2.10.5 Patch available GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo_cd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.4.0 to before 2.8.14; 2.9.0 to before 2.9.10; 2.10.0 to before 2.10.5Vulnerableargoproj
  • cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo_cd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.4.0 to before 2.8.14; 2.9.0 to before 2.9.10; 2.10.0 to before 2.10.5 Vulnerable ·argoproj

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA argo-cd (argoproj) Fixed in 2.8.14, 2.9.10, 2.10.5
  • Fix · GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3 github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 (Go) Fixed in 2.8.14 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3 github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 (Go) Fixed in 2.9.10 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3 github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 (Go) Fixed in 2.10.5 Advisory →

Red Hat 4 advisories

  • RHSA-2024:1753 Released 2024-04-10 · Red Hat rating Important
    Errata Advisory for Red Hat OpenShift GitOps v1.12.1 security update
    • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.12 openshift-gitops-1/argo-rollouts-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9 +7
  • RHSA-2024:1752 Released 2024-04-10 · Red Hat rating Important
    GitOps 1.12.1- Argo CD CLI and MicroShift GitOps security update
    • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.12 microshift-gitops-1.12.1-4.el9, microshift-gitops-release-info-1.12.1-4.el9, openshift-gitops-argocd-cli-1.12.1-4.el9 +3
  • RHSA-2024:1700 Released 2024-04-08 · Red Hat rating Important
    Errata Advisory for Red Hat OpenShift GitOps v1.10.4 security update
    • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.10 openshift-gitops-1/argo-rollouts-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/console-plugin-rhel8 +6
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  • RHSA-2024:1697 Released 2024-04-08 · Red Hat rating Important
    Errata Advisory for Red Hat OpenShift GitOps v1.11.3 security update
    • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.11 openshift-gitops-1/argo-rollouts-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/console-plugin-rhel8 +6

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.10Fixed RHSA-2024:1700
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.11Fixed RHSA-2024:1697
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.12Fixed RHSA-2024:1752, RHSA-2024:1753
Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-29893
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3

References

Patch 3

Advisory 2

Other 1

  • TI-2024-14377 Argo CD vulnerable to Bypassing of Brute Force Protection via Application Crash and In-Memory Data Loss CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2024-14383 Argo CD vulnerable to Bypassing of Rate Limit and Brute Force Protection Using Cache Overflow CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2026-31086 ArgoCD ServerSideDiff is vulnerable to Kubernetes Secret Extraction CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
  • TI-2023-20919 Cluster secret might leak in cluster details page in Argo CD CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
  • TI-2024-21088 ArgoCD Vulnerable to Use of Risky or Missing Cryptographic Algorithms in Redis Cache CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2026-33475 Argo CD: Stored XSS in application link annotations enables developer-to-admin privilege escalation CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7
See all 56 →

Sources

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