Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU80556

Input validation error in Argo CD - CVE-2023-40584

Published: September 8, 2023

Vulnerability identifier: #VU80556

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-40584

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the ArgoCD repo-server component. A remote user can send a specially crafted tar.gz file and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

Argo CD
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps

How to mitigate CVE-2023-40584

Install updates from vendor's website.

Argo CD - addressed in versions 2.6.15, 2.7.14, 2.8.3
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps - update to 1.9

External References

https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/b8f92c4ff226346624f43de3f25d81dac6386674
https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-g687-f2gx-6wm8

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