CVE-2022-29165

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.021 · 82 %ileEURUUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
—
no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.10% (82nd) EPSS
CVSS 9.3 · high
Is it mine?
45 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
6 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Argo CD starting with version 1.4.0 and prior to versions 2.1.15, 2.2.9, and 2.3.4 which would allow unauthenticated users to impersonate as any Argo CD user or role, including the `admin` user, by sending a specifically crafted JSON Web Token (JWT) along with the request. In order for this vulnerability to be exploited, anonymous access to the Argo CD instance must have been enabled. In a default Argo CD installation, anonymous access is disabled. The vulnerability can be exploited to impersonate as any user or role, including the built-in `admin` account regardless of whether it is enabled or disabled. Also, the attacker does not need an account on the Argo CD instance in order to exploit this. If anonymous access to the instance is enabled, an attacker can escalate their privileges, effectively allowing them to gain the same privileges on the cluster as the Argo CD instance, which is cluster admin in a default installation. This will allow the attacker to create, manipulate and delete any resource on the cluster. They may also exfiltrate data by deploying malicious workloads with elevated privileges, thus bypassing any redaction of sensitive data otherwise enforced by the Argo CD API. A patch for this vulnerability has been released in Argo CD versions 2.3.4, 2.2.9, and 2.1.15. As a workaround, one may disable anonymous access, but upgrading to a patched version is preferable.

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remediations

Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.

A vendor fix is available.

  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/applicationset-rhel8@sha256:6def698fb89067d2259a34bced9080d3c7b509b711fda795d73f427f9068c1ba_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4671
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8@sha256:2c780222e3aeaffb466f04f5948d474921e9f2a3cc217c4dcc7f83ae268b55a1_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4671
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/dex-rhel8@sha256:54bb64a4d6e3044d99f534cce1fbbb2053f8880139a98fddb9e405a71c067359_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4671
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-operator-bundle@sha256:6cf4377fd2efa8ae4965dae8e6cc7cd7017fd739e43618d6daea61244fe40d47_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4671
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8-operator@sha256:95e2be5c2578571d6461ec691466c95f5928fc25e97f7161b98b2a9496a22b5b_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4671
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8@sha256:97871502a00aee8f673601da76111cc39a13088517d6e1d07882f0c4cc249ffc_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4671
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/kam-delivery-rhel8@sha256:c1aa038cbdef8e2eadb2fee362249aa85e5678a4367f9bdd4320de63e27ef705_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4671
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/applicationset-rhel8@sha256:a82e54981e175c7ea5e615aef6659be0c8c2bb2042c4ca762f3551244c352a0d_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.5redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4690
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8@sha256:87e4957bcecd23fc21fe44d00a6c40b7bdb62afd0c606ca5dfbd8defeeaad83a_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.5redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4690
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/dex-rhel8@sha256:6e1df31388b61351e0ecefe05085dcba23f1524f5c8bb59afd8a00d9039310d6_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.5redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4690
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-operator-bundle@sha256:2420c7de9ade63c11b453730568a64772ca3ec1551b9b5e9ae8bfa2eef2b3cd9_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.5redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4690
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8-operator@sha256:e05a6d29b0822647709a521e47584222e5451c0e53940eacf05b7ac9732bae93_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.5redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4690
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8@sha256:969a1b2b159bdd09f44edb3edcaf7ce9928b223f823a4999404ae8f068b006aa_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.5redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4690
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/kam-delivery-rhel8@sha256:df2f63afa7c824ef139fdc44c420f6c1cc1f0986df520ee3b3e4afd02882566e_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.5redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4690
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/applicationset-rhel8@sha256:8621918dacdc5d45ed47f8ecc87e178f5e98b550049d2bee2fd7bba0a918327d_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4691
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8@sha256:d38a00c5f807c275dd6830de16899cd51dc7d57b8dd63c0ec5183fa4d28d2a69_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4691
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/dex-rhel8@sha256:b58f08d8e8c03c9ed044795574e2645848eec6ec987233edcc74f99131cfc83d_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4691
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-operator-bundle@sha256:cf03b9810510a741c56c55f085832de2f8dd324cb21fb27f5085dbbc2e350f4c_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4691
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8-operator@sha256:ea3f6698c273e1bd2c45d931c44a45f01c15ef1ebd24bc969b824019ff690aac_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4691
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8@sha256:aff088cfffc96a75edacd496fccb2bb374130faf1d9d60acf967469eb60a54db_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4691
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/kam-delivery-rhel8@sha256:ef21fbf7fef28e0552515305394ba1496626353476bdc1ad59282bd54f500e32_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4691
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/applicationset-rhel8@sha256:e890bd2bbd025a368c7dd0625612ced98d0e11b110b6381fdb0888dac2504728_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.4redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4692
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8@sha256:3f55b9686dfa194667db93cd044a71b2e2d52f73ac10f0f99d95197bb4e5f130_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.4redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4692
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/dex-rhel8@sha256:eb39bc1c6907584501efd99ef9a25faaf6737b7ef4377e5c35dc833d4ec93531_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.4redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4692
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-operator-bundle@sha256:09bb7f98f120c9ceb5cdfc8b6b86f1b290be9c841bf6aa67c91bb3b05367b5b2_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.4redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4692
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8-operator@sha256:e9b8ac8b2187fcd5c1533f7a8c7c12715bd2cfac7ceac5b750bc510f5bf57fd2_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.4redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4692
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8@sha256:f99ceb45207658527db7e1cf2938a393d876b2431cdc583ea05a2f9cb305e071_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.4redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4692
  • Fixedopenshift-gitops-1/kam-delivery-rhel8@sha256:e371787eefe08695d130b0fd84c81c4bf966be6f1c82222e5c9ae0a8fa45428f_amd64 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.4redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4692
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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 9.1–10

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10
v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 6
v3.110criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 6
v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV
v3.19.1criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · Red Hat Product Security US
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-290USprimaryCWE-200USCWE-200USCWE-200USCWE-287USCWE-287USCWE-287USCWE-290USCWE-290USCWE-551US
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affected products (45)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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advisories (6)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • RHSA-2022:4671Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift GitOps security update2022-05-18csaf · redhat_csafUS

    An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3 in openshift-gitops-argocd container. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

  • RHSA-2022:4690Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift GitOps security update2022-05-18csaf · redhat_csafUS

    An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.5 in openshift-gitops-argocd container. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

  • RHSA-2022:4691Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift GitOps security update2022-05-18csaf · redhat_csafUS

    An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.3 in openshift-gitops-argocd container. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

  • RHSA-2022:4692Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift GitOps security update2022-05-18csaf · redhat_csafUS

    An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.4 in openshift-gitops-argocd container. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

  • GHSA-r642-gv9p-2wjjArgo CD will blindly trust JWT claims if anonymous access is enabled2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS

    ### Impact A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Argo CD which would allow unauthenticated users to impersonate as any Argo CD user or role, including the `admin` user, by sending a specifically crafted JSON Web Token (JWT) along with the request. In order for this vulnerability to be exploited, [anonymous access](https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/rbac/#anonymous-access) to the Argo CD instance must have been enabled. In a default Argo CD installation, anonymous access is disabled. To find out if anonymous access is enabled in your instance, please see the *Workarounds* section of this advisory below. The vulnerability can be exploited to impersonate as any user or role, including the built-in `admin` account regardless of whether that account is enabled or disabled. Also, the attacker does not need an account on the Argo CD instance in order to exploit this. If anonymous access to the instance is enabled, an attacker can: * Escalate their privileges, effectively allowing them to gain the same privileges on the cluster as the Argo CD instance, which is cluster admin in a default installation. This will allow the attacker to create, manipulate and delete any resource on the cluster. * Exfiltrate data by deploying malicious workloads with elevated privileges, thus bypassing any redaction of sensitive data otherwise enforced by the Argo CD API We **strongly recommend** that all users of Argo CD update to a version containing this patch as soon as possible, regardless of whether or not anonymous access is enabled in your instance. Please see below for a list of versions containing a fix for this vulnerability and any possible workarounds existing for this issue. ### Patches A patch for this vulnerability has been released in the following Argo CD versions: * v2.3.4 * v2.2.9 * v2.1.15 ### Workarounds #### Disable anonymous access If you are not able to upgrade to a patched version quickly, we highly suggest disabling anonymous access if it is enabled. To find out whether anonymous access is enabled for your Argo CD instance, you can query the `argocd-cm` ConfigMap in the Argo CD's installation namespace. The below example assumes you have installed Argo CD to the `argocd` namespace: ```shell $ kubectl get -n argocd cm argocd-cm -o jsonpath='{.data.users\.anonymous\.enabled}' ``` If the result of this command is either empty or `"false"`, anonymous access to that instance is not enabled. If the result is `"true"`, your instance is vulnerable. To disable anonymous access, patch the `argocd-cm` ConfigMap to either remove the `users.anonymous.enabled` field or set this field to `"false"`. To set the field to `"false"`: ```shell $ kubectl patch -n argocd cm argocd-cm --type=json -p='[{"op":"add", "path":"/data/users.anonymous.enabled", "value":"false"}]' ``` Or you can remove the field completely, thus disabling anonymous access because the default is `false`: ```shell $ kubectl patch -n argocd cm argocd-cm --type=json -p='[{"op":"remove", "path":"/data/users.anonymous.enabled"}]' ``` ### Credits The Argo CD team would like to thank Mark Pim and Andrzej Hajto, who discovered this vulnerability and reported it in a responsible way to us. ### For more information * Open an issue in [the Argo CD issue tracker](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues) or [discussions](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/discussions) * Join us on [Slack](https://argoproj.github.io/community/join-slack) in channel #argo-cd

  • GO-2022-0455Argo CD will blindly trust JWT claims if anonymous access is enabled in github.com/argoproj/argo-cd2024-08-21vendor · osvUS

    Argo CD will blindly trust JWT claims if anonymous access is enabled in github.com/argoproj/argo-cd

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdfstec_bduosvnvdredhat_csafNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2022-05-20modified 2026-06-17
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references (18)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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