CVE-2025-55191Repository Credentials Race Condition Crashes Argo CD Server
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.48%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 58% 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. Versions between 2.1.0 and 2.14.19, 3.2.0-rc1, 3.1.0-rc1 through 3.1.7, and 3.0.0-rc1 through 3.0.18 contain a race condition in the repository credentials handler that can cause the Argo CD server to panic and crash when concurrent operations are performed on the same repository URL. The vulnerability is located in numerous repository related handlers in the util/db/repository_secrets.go file. A valid API token with repositories resource permissions (create, update, or delete actions) is required to trigger the race condition. This vulnerability causes the entire Argo CD server to crash and become unavailable. Attackers can repeatedly and continuously trigger the race condition to maintain a denial-of-service state, disrupting all GitOps operations. This issue is fixed in versions 2.14.20, 3.2.0-rc2, 3.1.8 and 3.0.19.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 53 days later
· 53 days later
Published
- 6 days later
· 6 days 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 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 58% of all CVEs (13 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-g88p-r42r-ppp9 (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v3GHSA-g88p-r42r-ppp9 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-g88p-r42r-ppp9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/pull/6103 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/701bc50d01c752cad96185f848088d287a97c7b7 (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-2025-31768 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g88p-r42r-ppp9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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