CVE-2024-40634
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40634
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-40634.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-40634
- Aliases
- Related
- Published
- 2024-07-22T17:22:55.732Z
- Modified
- 2026-05-14T03:52:03.893285818Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Argo CD Unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability via /api/webhook Endpoint
- Details
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Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. This report details a security vulnerability in Argo CD, where an unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted large JSON payload to the /api/webhook endpoint, causing excessive memory allocation that leads to service disruption by triggering an Out Of Memory (OOM) kill. The issue poses a high risk to the availability of Argo CD deployments. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.11.6, 2.10.15, and 2.9.20.
- Database specific
{ "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-400" ], "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/40xxx/CVE-2024-40634.json", "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M" }- References
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- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/40xxx/CVE-2024-40634.json
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-jmvp-698c-4x3w
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40634
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/46c0c0b64deaab1ece70cb701030b76668ad0cdc
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/540e3a57b90eb3655db54793332fac86bcc38b36
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/d881ee78949e23160a0b280bb159e4d3d625a4df