Resource exhaustion in Argo CD - CVE-2024-29893

 

Resource exhaustion in Argo CD - CVE-2024-29893

Published: April 25, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU89009
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-29893
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can crash the repo server component through an out of memory error by pointing it to a malicious Helm registry.


Affected software

Argo CD
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
microshift-gitops (Red Hat package)
openshift-gitops-argocd-cli (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2024-29893

Install updates from vendor's website.

Argo CD - addressed in versions 2.8.14, 2.9.10, 2.10.5
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps - addressed in versions 1.10.4, 1.11.3, 1.12.1
microshift-gitops (Red Hat package) - update to 1.12.1-4.el9
openshift-gitops-argocd-cli (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.12.1-4.el9, 1.12.1-5.el8

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