CVE-2024-52799 – Argo Workflows Chart: Excessive Privileges in Workflow Role

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2024-52799

Argo Workflows Chart is used to set up argo and its needed dependencies through one command. Prior to 0.44.0, the workflow-role has excessive privileges, the worst being create pods/exec, which will allow kubectl exec into any Pod in the same namespace, i.e. arbitrary code execution within those Pods. If a user can be made to run a malicious template, their whole namespace can be compromised. This affects versions of the argo-workflows Chart that use appVersion: 3.4 and above, which no longer need these permissions for the only available Executor, Emissary. It could also affect users below 3.4 depending on their choice of Executor in those versions. • https://github.com/argoproj/argo-helm/security/advisories/GHSA-fgrf-2886-4q7m https://github.com/argoproj/argo-helm/commit/81dc44c4a5ccd42c799469a78eb96a68048a4987 • CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control •