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Argo CD GitOps Engine does not scrub secret values from patch errors

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 30, 2025 in argoproj/gitops-engine • Updated Jun 17, 2025

Package

gomod github.com/argoproj/gitops-engine (Go)

Affected versions

>= 0.7.2, <= 0.7.3
< 0.7.1-0.20250129155113-4c6e03c463141

Patched versions

0.7.1-0.20250129155113-4c6e03c463141

Description

Impact

A vulnerability was discovered in Argo CD that exposed secret values in error messages and the diff view when an invalid Kubernetes Secret resource was synced from a repository.

The vulnerability assumes the user has write access to the repository and can exploit it, either intentionally or unintentionally, by committing an invalid Secret to repository and triggering a Sync. Once exploited, any user with read access to Argo CD can view the exposed secret data.

Patches

A patch for this vulnerability is available in the following Argo CD versions:

  • v2.13.4
  • v2.12.10
  • v2.11.13

Workarounds

There is no workaround other than upgrading.

References

Fixed with commit argoproj/argo-cd@6f5537b & argoproj/gitops-engine@7e21b91

References

@jannfis jannfis published to argoproj/gitops-engine Jan 30, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 30, 2025
Reviewed Jan 30, 2025
Last updated Jun 17, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-274v-mgcv-cm8j

Source code

Credits

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