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Description

Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Versions prior to 3.6.12 and versions 3.7.0 through 3.7.2 contain a Zip Slip path traversal vulnerability in artifact extraction. During artifact extraction the unpack/untar logic (workflow/executor/executor.go) uses filepath.Join(dest, filepath.Clean(header.Name)) without validating that header.Name stays within the intended extraction directory. A malicious archive entry can supply a traversal or absolute path that, after cleaning, overrides the destination directory and causes files to be written outside the /work/tmp extraction path and into system directories such as /etc inside the container. The vulnerability enables arbitrary file creation or overwrite in system configuration locations (for example /etc/passwd, /etc/hosts, /etc/crontab), which can lead to privilege escalation or persistence within the affected container. Update to 3.6.12 or 3.7.3 to remediate the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
argoproj argo-workflows < 3.6.12, >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20251105T184115-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15710-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling argo-workflows-3.7 +3 3.7.3-r0 —
Wolfi rolling argo-workflows-4.0 +2 4.0.2-r0 —
Wolfi rolling kubeflow-pipelines +11 2.14.3-r3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows all versions — GO-2025-4023
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v2 all versions — GO-2025-4023
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3 < 3.6.12 3.6.12 GHSA-p84v-gxvw-73pf
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3 >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.3 3.7.3 GHSA-p84v-gxvw-73pf
Go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3 < 3.6.12 · >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.3 3.6.12, 3.7.3 GO-2025-4023

Advisories 2

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