Information Exposure Affecting argo-workflows package, versions <3.6.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-ARGOWORKFLOWS-8456165
  • published4 Dec 2024
  • disclosed2 Dec 2024

Introduced: 2 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-53862  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-290  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard argo-workflows to version 3.6.2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream argo-workflows package and not the argo-workflows package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. When using --auth-mode=client, Archived Workflows can be retrieved with a fake or spoofed token via the GET Workflow endpoint: /api/v1/workflows/{namespace}/{name} or when using --auth-mode=sso, all Archived Workflows can be retrieved with a valid token via the GET Workflow endpoint: /api/v1/workflows/{namespace}/{name}. No authentication is performed by the Server itself on client tokens. Authentication & authorization is instead delegated to the k8s API server. However, the Workflow Archive does not interact with k8s, and so any token that looks valid will be considered authenticated, even if it is not a k8s token or even if the token has no RBAC for Argo. To handle the lack of pass-through k8s authN/authZ, the Workflow Archive specifically does the equivalent of a kubectl auth can-i check for respective methods. In 3.5.7 and 3.5.8, the auth check was accidentally removed on the GET Workflow endpoint's fallback to archived workflows on these lines, allowing archived workflows to be retrieved with a fake token. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.2 and 3.5.13.