Bug 2400940 (CVE-2025-59538)

Summary: CVE-2025-59538 github.com/argoproj/argo-cd: Argo CD unauthenticated Remote Denial of Service
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: abarbaro, anjoseph, jchui, jhe, jprabhak, ktsao, nboldt, psrna, wtam
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A denial of service flaw has been discovered in Argo-CD. In the default configuration, `webhook.azuredevops.username` and `webhook.azuredevops.password` are not set, Argo CD’s `/api/webhook` endpoint crashes the entire argocd-server process when it receives an Azure DevOps Push event whose JSON array resource.refUpdates is empty. The slice index [0] is accessed without a length check, causing an index-out-of-range panic.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 22:01:21 UTC
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. For versions 2.9.0-rc1 through 2.14.19, 3.0.0-rc1 through 3.2.0-rc1, 3.1.6 and 3.0.17, when the webhook.azuredevops.username and webhook.azuredevops.password are not set in the default configuration, the /api/webhook endpoint crashes the entire argocd-server process when it receives an Azure DevOps Push event whose JSON array resource.refUpdates is empty. The slice index [0] is accessed without a length check, causing an index-out-of-range panic. A single unauthenticated HTTP POST is enough to kill the process. This issue is resolved in versions 2.14.20, 3.2.0-rc2, 3.1.8 and 3.0.19.