CVE-2024-31990

Argo CD' API server does not enforce project sourceNamespaces

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 4.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.45 % · percentile 39 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-04-15
Updated: 2024-08-02
Assigner: GitHub_M
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. The API server does not enforce project sourceNamespaces which allows attackers to use the UI to edit resources which should only be mutable via gitops. This vulenrability is fixed in 2.10.7, 2.9.12, and 2.8.16.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-863

Advisories

GHSA-2gvw-w6fj-7m3c — Argo CD's API server does not enforce project sourceNamespaces
GO-2024-2728 — Argo CD's API server does not enforce project sourceNamespaces in github.com/argoproj/argo-cd

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-1062
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-31990

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo_cd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.4.0 < 2.8.16
cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo_cd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.9.0 < 2.9.12
cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo_cd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.10.0 < 2.10.7

Affected products

Product	Versions
argoproj · argo-cd	affected >= 2.10.0, < 2.10.7 ; affected >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.12 ; affected >= 2.4.0, < 2.8.16

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD