CVE-2024-47827Argo Workflows Controller: Denial of Service via malicious daemon Workflows
- 5.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 70% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Due to a race condition in a global variable in 3.6.0-rc1, the argo workflows controller can be made to crash on-command by any user with access to execute a workflow. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.0-rc2.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 25 days later
· 25 days later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 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 | Medium5.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.7.
Affected products
- affected >= 3.6.0-rc1, < 3.6.0-rc2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3GHSA-ghjw-32xw-ffwr (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-ghjw-32xw-ffwr (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/pull/13641 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/commit/524406451f4dfa57bf3371fb85becdb56a2b309a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/blob/ce7f9bfb9b45f009b3e85fabe5e6410de23c7c5f/workflow/metrics/metrics_k8s_request.go#L75 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
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-2024-3048 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-ghjw-32xw-ffwr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-47827)Record last updated .