CVE-2022-29164
mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.009 · 60 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. In affected versions an attacker can create a workflow which produces a HTML artifact containing an HTML file that contains a script which uses XHR calls to interact with the Argo Server API. The attacker emails the deep-link to the artifact to their victim. The victim opens the link, the script starts running. As the script has access to the Argo Server API (as the victim), so may read information about the victim’s workflows, or create and delete workflows. Note the attacker must be an insider: they must have access to the same cluster as the victim and must already be able to run their own workflows. The attacker must have an understanding of the victim’s system. We have seen no evidence of this in the wild. We urge all users to upgrade to the fixed versions.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.6–7.1
ssvc
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weaknesses
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affected products (8)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- Go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v32.6.0 → 3.2.11osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3
- Go github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v33.3.0 → 3.3.5osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3
advisories (2)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- GHSA-cmv8-6362-r5w9Malicious HTML+XHR Artifact Privilege Escalation in Argo Workflows2022-05-23ghsa · osvUS
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. * The attacker creates a workflow that produces a HTML artifact that contains a HTML file that contains a script which uses XHR calls to interact with the Argo Server API. * The attacker emails the deep-link to the artifact to their victim. The victim opens the link, the script starts running. As the script has access to the Argo Server API (as the victim), so may do the following (if the victim may): * Read information about the victim’s workflows. * Create or delete workflows. Notes: * The attacker must be an insider: they must have access to the same cluster as the victim and must already be able to run their own workflows. * The attacker must have an understanding of the victim’s system. They won’t be able to repeatedly probe due to the social engineering aspect. * The attacker is likely leave an audit trail. We have seen no evidence of this in the wild. While the impact is high, it is very hard to exploit. We urge all users to upgrade to the fixed versions. Disabling the Argo Server is the only known workaround. Note version 2.12 has been out of support for sometime. No fix is currently planned.
- BIT-argo-workflows-2022-29164Privilege Escalation in argo-workflows2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. In affected versions an attacker can create a workflow which produces a HTML artifact containing an HTML file that contains a script which uses XHR calls to interact with the Argo Server API. The attacker emails the deep-link to the artifact to their victim. The victim opens the link, the script starts running. As the script has access to the Argo Server API (as the victim), so may read information about the victim’s workflows, or create and delete workflows. Note the attacker must be an insider: they must have access to the same cluster as the victim and must already be able to run their own workflows. The attacker must have an understanding of the victim’s system. We have seen no evidence of this in the wild. We urge all users to upgrade to the fixed versions.
also known as (5)
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- CNNVD-202205-2559cnnvd
- EUVD-2022-3599enisa_euvd
- GHSA-cmv8-6362-r5w9enisa_euvd
- BIT-argo-workflows-2022-29164osv
- GHSA-cmv8-6362-r5w9osv
sources
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references (10)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2022-29164/cnnvd
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/commit/87470e1c2bf703a9110e97bb755614ce8757fdcccnnvd
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/pull/8585cnnvd
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-cmv8-6362-r5w9cnnvd
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/commit/87470e1c2bf703a9110e97bb755614ce8757fdccenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/pull/8585enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-cmv8-6362-r5w9enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/commit/87470e1c2bf703a9110e97bb755614ce8757fdccPatchThird Party Advisorynvd
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