Argo Workflows
CVE-2024-47827
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Concurrency control, locking
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 4.8 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: adjacent network attack vector, high complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.8).
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Affects 3 packages in go
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-362. Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Due to a race condition in a global variable in 3.6.0-rc1, the argo workflows controller can be made to crash on-command by any user with access to execute a workflow. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.0-rc2. Affected products include: Argoproj Argo Workflows.
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AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Due to a race condition in a global variable in 3.6.0-rc1, the argo workflows controller can be made to crash on-command by any user with access to execute a workflow. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.0-rc2.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Race conditions occur when multiple concurrent requests exploit the brief time gap between checking a condition and acting upon it (TOCTOU - Time of Check, Time of Use).
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
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Information disclosure in Argo Workflows before 4.0.2 and 3.7.11 lets any unauthenticated client read WorkflowTemplates
Stored cross-site scripting in Argo Workflows (CNCF Kubernetes workflow engine) before 3.6.17 and 3.7.8 lets any authent
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