CVE-2026-40886 (GCVE-0-2026-40886)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-23 18:12 – Updated: 2026-04-25 01:22
VLAI?
Title
Argo Workflows: Unchecked annotation parsing in pod informer crashes Argo Workflows controller
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.7 (High)
CWE
- CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index
Assigner
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| argoproj | argo-workflows |
Affected:
>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5
Affected: >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.14 Affected: >= 3.6.5, <= 3.6.19 |
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