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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2023-23947 EUVD-2023-0613GHSA-3jfq-742w-xg8jGO-2023-1577

Argo CD users with any cluster secret update access may update out-of-bounds cluster secrets

Published Feb 16, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. All Argo CD versions starting with 2.3.0-rc1 and prior to 2.3.17, 2.4.23 2.5.11, and 2.6.2 are vulnerable to an improper authorization bug which allows users who have the ability to update at least one cluster secret to update any cluster secret. The attacker could use this access to escalate privileges (potentially controlling Kubernetes resources) or to break Argo CD functionality (by preventing connections to external clusters). A patch for this vulnerability has been released in Argo CD versions 2.6.2, 2.5.11, 2.4.23, and 2.3.17. Two workarounds are available. Either modify the RBAC configuration to completely revoke all `clusters, update` access, or use the `destinations` and `clusterResourceWhitelist` fields to apply similar restrictions as the `namespaces` and `clusterResources` fields.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
argoproj argo-cd >= 2.3.0-rc1, < 2.3.17, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.23, >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.11, >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.17 2.3.17 GHSA-3jfq-742w-xg8j
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.23 2.4.23 GHSA-3jfq-742w-xg8j
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.11 2.5.11 GHSA-3jfq-742w-xg8j
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.2 2.6.2 GHSA-3jfq-742w-xg8j
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd all versions — GO-2023-1577
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.17 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.23 · >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.11 · >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.2 2.3.17, 2.4.23, 2.5.11, 2.6.2 GO-2023-1577

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