CVE-2022-31016

Argo CD vulnerable to Uncontrolled Memory Consumption

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jun 25, 2022
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: May 18, 2022

Description

Argo CD is a declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes. Argo CD versions v0.7.0 and later are vulnerable to an uncontrolled memory consumption bug, allowing an authorized malicious user to crash the repo-server service, resulting in a Denial of Service. The attacker must be an authenticated Argo CD user authorized to deploy Applications from a repository which contains (or can be made to contain) a large file. The fix for this vulnerability is available in versions 2.3.5, 2.2.10, 2.1.16, and later. There are no known workarounds. Users are recommended to upgrade.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
argo-cdargoproj	>= 0.7.0, < 2.1.16Affected > 2.0.0, < 2.2.10Affected > 2.3.0, < 2.3.5Affected

References

https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-jhqp-vf4w-rpwq

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