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Fencer Vulns
high 8.3

CVE-2026-42297 json

Argo Workflows Is Missing Authorization in Sync ConfigMap Provider

published 2026-05-04 6 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-argo-workflows-2026-42297 , EUVD-2026-28895 , GHSA-xchc-cqwg-g76q , GO-2026-5751

cvss
8.3
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 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. From version 4.0.0 to before version 4.0.5, the Sync Service's ConfigMap-backed provider (server/sync/sync_cm.go) performs zero authorization checks on all CRUD operations (create, read, update, delete). Any authenticated user — including those using fake Bearer tokens — can create, read, update, and delete Kubernetes ConfigMaps containing synchronization limits. This issue has been patched in version 4.0.5.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v4 4.0.5
  • bitnami argo-workflows 4.0.5
  • argo_workflows_project argo_workflows 4.0.5
  • argoproj argo_workflows 4.0.5
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

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-2026-42297 updated cvss 8.3

Argo Workflows: github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows: Argo Workflows: Unauthorized ConfigMap manipulation due to missing authorization

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 rhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-argo-argoexec-rhel9 1790132012, rhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-argo-workflowcontroller-rhel9 1790130173
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:73987
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-argo-argoexec-rhel8, rhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-argo-workflowcontroller-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 rhoai/odh-cli-rhel9 1790070206, rhoai/rhai-cli-rhel9 1790070206, rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9 1789653606, rhoai/odh-trainer-rhel9 1790136369, rhoai/odh-maas-api-rhel9 1790131842, rhoai/odh-mlserver-rhel9 1789121365, +75 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-xchc-cqwg-g76q referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H
CISA ADP 3.1 8.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
CNA 4.0 8.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 8.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v4
>=4.0.0, <4.0.5
4.0.5
bitnami argo-workflows
>=4.0.0, <4.0.5
4.0.5
go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v2
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • argoproj argo-workflows
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.