argoproj argo-helm up to 0.43.x unnecessary privileges

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A vulnerability was found in argoproj argo-helm up to 0.43.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. This manipulation causes unnecessary privileges. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-52799. The attack requires local access. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in argoproj argo-helm up to 0.43.x. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unnecessary privileges vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-250. The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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. This only affects the Helm Chart and not the upstream manifests. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.44.0.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-52799 since 11/15/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.44.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 81dc44c4a5ccd42c799469a78eb96a68048a4987 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Vendor

• argoproj

Name

• argo-helm

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21
• 0.22
• 0.23
• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26
• 0.27
• 0.28
• 0.29
• 0.30
• 0.31
• 0.32
• 0.33
• 0.34
• 0.35
• 0.36
• 0.37
• 0.38
• 0.39
• 0.40
• 0.41
• 0.42
• 0.43

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-helm/

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