CVE-2026-42183 PUBLISHED

Argo Workflows: SSO RBAC Delegation Nil Pointer Dereference DoS (gatekeeper.go)

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 25.04.2026 Published: 09.05.2026 Updated: 09.05.2026

Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. From version 4.0.0 to before version 4.0.5, a nil pointer dereference in server/auth/gatekeeper.go rbacAuthorization() causes a panic (denial of service) for SSO users whose claims match a namespace-level RBAC rule but not an SSO-namespace rule, when SSO_DELEGATE_RBAC_TO_NAMESPACE=true. This issue has been patched in version 4.0.5.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 2.3

Product Status

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

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference CWE