Improper access control allows admin privilege escalation in Argo CD

Description

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. All unpatched versions of Argo CD starting with 1.0.0 are vulnerable to an improper access control bug, allowing a malicious user to potentially escalate their privileges to admin-level. Versions starting with 0.8.0 and 0.5.0 contain limited versions of this issue. To perform exploits, an authorized Argo CD user must have push access to an Application's source git or Helm repository or `sync` and `override` access to an Application. Once a user has that access, different exploitation levels are possible depending on their other RBAC privileges. A patch for this vulnerability has been released in Argo CD versions 2.3.2, 2.2.8, and 2.1.14. Some mitigation measures are available but do not serve as a substitute for upgrading. To avoid privilege escalation, limit who has push access to Application source repositories or `sync` + `override` access to Applications; and limit which repositories are available in projects where users have `update` access to Applications. To avoid unauthorized resource inspection/tampering, limit who has `delete`, `get`, or `action` access to Applications.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.9.

Weakness

• CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
• CWE-862 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-862 and its CVEs

Affected products

• argoproj · argo-cd

  • affected >= 0.5.0, < 2.1.14
  • affected >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.8
  • affected >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.2

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Gogithub.com/argoproj/argo-cdGHSA-2f5v-8r3f-8pww (opens in a new tab)

References (5)

• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-2f5v-8r3f-8pww (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/af03b291d4b7e9d3ce9a6580ae9c8141af0e05cf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/tag/v2.1.14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/tag/v2.2.8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/tag/v2.3.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-2f5v-8r3f-8pww (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 23 Apr 2025, 18:44 UTC.