Bug 2461236 (CVE-2026-40886) - CVE-2026-40886 github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows: Argo Workflows: Denial of Service via malformed workflow pod annotation
Summary: CVE-2026-40886 github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows: Argo Workflows: Denial of ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-40886
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-04-23 19:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-30 16:03 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-23 19:01:51 UTC
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.


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