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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2025-23216 json

Argo CD does not scrub secret values from patch errors

published 2025-01-30 21 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-argo-cd-2025-23216 , EUVD-2025-0130 , GHSA-47g2-qmh2-749v , GO-2025-3433

cvss
6.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. A vulnerability was discovered in Argo CD that exposed secret values in error messages and the diff view when an invalid Kubernetes Secret resource was synced from a repository. The vulnerability assumes the user has write access to the repository and can exploit it, either intentionally or unintentionally, by committing an invalid Secret to repository and triggering a Sync. Once exploited, any user with read access to Argo CD can view the exposed secret data. The vulnerability is fixed in v2.13.4, v2.12.10, and v2.11.13.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 2.11.13, 2.12.10, 2.13.4
  • bitnami argo-cd 2.13.4
  • argoproj argo_cd 2.11.13, 2.12.10, 2.13.4
  • linuxfoundation argo-cd 2.11.13, 2.12.10, 2.13.4
  • linuxfoundation argo_continuous_delivery 2.11.13, 2.12.10, 2.13.4
  • govulncheck-vulndb SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20250207T224745-150000.1.32.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:0429-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20250204T220613-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14732-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-23216 updated cvss 6.8

argocd: Argo CD does not scrub secret values from patch errors

  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.14 openshift-gitops-1/dex-rhel8 v1.14.3-4, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8 v1.14.3-4, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9 v1.14.3-1, openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8 v1.14.3-4, openshift-gitops-1/must-gather-rhel8 v1.14.3-4, openshift-gitops-1/kam-delivery-rhel8 v1.14.3-4, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:3069
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.15 openshift-gitops-1/dex-rhel8 v1.15.1-7, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8 v1.15.1-7, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9 v1.15.1-1, openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8 v1.15.1-7, openshift-gitops-1/must-gather-rhel8 v1.15.1-7, openshift-gitops-1/argo-rollouts-rhel8 v1.15.1-7, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:1888

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2
>=2.13.0, <2.13.4
>=2.12.0, <2.12.10
<2.11.13
2.13.4
2.12.10
2.11.13
go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd
<=1.8.7
all versions
 no fix listed
bitnami argo-cd
<2.13.4
2.13.4

Affected products

  • argoproj argo-cd

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-209 Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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