Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. From 3.6.5 to 4.0.4, an unchecked array index in the pod informer's podGCFromPod() function causes a controller-wide panic when a workflow pod carries a malformed workflows.argoproj.io/pod-gc-strategy annotation. Because the panic occurs inside an informer goroutine (outside the controller's recover() scope), it crashes the entire controller process. The poisoned pod persists across restarts, causing a crash loop that halts all workflow processing until the pod is manually deleted. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.5 and 3.7.14.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-5jv8-h7qh-rf5p Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-5jv8-h7qh-rf5p Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.7 · argoprojNVD modified 2026-10-26 22:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo_workflows:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
References 5
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-5jv8-h7qh-rf5p Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40886
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461236
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-5jv8-h7qh-rf5p Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-40886.json