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TI-2024-35312 Aliases CVE-2024-52799

Argo Workflows Chart: Excessive Privileges in Workflow Role

Priority HIGH 71CWE-1220Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Privilege escalation
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-250.

Summary

Argo Workflows Chart is used to set up argo and its needed dependencies through one command. Prior to 0.44.0, the workflow-role has excessive privileges, the worst being create pods/exec, which will allow kubectl exec into any Pod in the same namespace, i.e. arbitrary code execution within those Pods. If a user can be made to run a malicious template, their whole namespace can be compromised. This affects versions of the argo-workflows Chart that use appVersion: 3.4 and above, which no longer need these permissions for the only available Executor, Emissary. It could also affect users below 3.4 depending on their choice of Executor in those versions. This only affects the Helm Chart and not the upstream manifests. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.44.0.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00211 11th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed argo-helm (argoproj): 0.44.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

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-helmbefore 0.44.00.44.0Patch availableCNA
  • argo-helm Vendorargoproj Affected before 0.44.0 Fixed in 0.44.0 Patch available CNA

CPE names CISA-ADP · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo-helm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——argoproj
  • cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo-helm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·argoproj

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA argo-helm (argoproj) Fixed in 0.44.0

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-52799

References

Other 2

  • TI-2026-22564 Argo Workflows has unauthorized access to Argo Workflows Template CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • 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-2026-30603 Argo Workflows: Unauthenticated Memory Exhaustion (DoS) in Webhook Interceptor CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
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Sources

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