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CVE-2024-40634

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2024-07-22 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Argoproj Argo Cd

Weakness Type

CWE-400, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References