CVE-2024-29893Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ArgoCD's repo server
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.97%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. All versions of ArgoCD starting from v2.4 have a bug where the ArgoCD repo-server component is vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service attack vector. Specifically, it's possible to crash the repo server component through an out of memory error by pointing it to a malicious Helm registry. The loadRepoIndex() function in the ArgoCD's helm package, does not limit the size nor time while fetching the data. It fetches it and creates a byte slice from the retrieved data in one go. If the registry is implemented to push data continuously, the repo server will keep allocating memory until it runs out of it. A patch for this vulnerability has been released in v2.10.3, v2.9.8, and v2.8.12.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.97% · top 37% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/14f681e3ee7c38731943b98f92277e88a3db109d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/36b8a12a38f8d92d55bffc81deed44389bf6eb59 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/3e5a878f6e30d935fa149723ea2a2e93748fcddd (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-0949 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jhwx-mhww-rgc3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-29893)Record last updated .