argoproj/argo-workflows is vulnerable to RCE via ZipSlip and symbolic links
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 3.6.14, 3.7.5
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: poc
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: total
Summary
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Versions 3.6.13 and below and versions 3.7.0 through 3.7.4, contain unsafe untar code that handles symbolic links in archives. Concretely, the computation of a link's target and the subsequent check are flawed. An attacker can overwrite the file /var/run/argo/argoexec with a script of their choice, which would be executed at the pod's start. The patch deployed against CVE-2025-62156 is ineffective against malicious archives containing symbolic links. This issue is fixed in versions 3.6.14 and 3.7.5.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- argoproj argo-workflows
github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3 < 3.6.14, github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows <= 2.5.3-rc4
- github.com/argoproj/argo-workflowsGo
All versions
- github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v2Go
All versions
- github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3Go
fixed in 3.6.14; From 3.7.0 · fixed in 3.7.5
- github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3Go
From 3.7.0 · fixed in 3.7.5
- github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3Go
fixed in 3.6.14
- github.com/argoproj/argo-workflowsGo
through 2.5.3-rc4