CVE-2026-40886 PUBLISHED

Argo Workflows: Unchecked annotation parsing in pod informer crashes Argo Workflows controller

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 15.04.2026 Published: 23.04.2026 Updated: 23.04.2026

Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. From 3.6.5 to 4.0.4, an unchecked array index in the pod informer's podGCFromPod() function causes a controller-wide panic when a workflow pod carries a malformed workflows.argoproj.io/pod-gc-strategy annotation. Because the panic occurs inside an informer goroutine (outside the controller's recover() scope), it crashes the entire controller process. The poisoned pod persists across restarts, causing a crash loop that halts all workflow processing until the pod is manually deleted. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.5 and 3.7.14.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.7

Product Status

Vendor argoproj
Product argo-workflows
Versions
  • Version >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5 is affected
  • Version >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.14 is affected
  • Version >= 3.6.5, <= 3.6.19 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-129: Improper Validation of Array Index CWE