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CVE-2024-32476: Denial of Service via malicious jqPathExpressions in ignoreDifferences

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. There is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability via OOM using jq in ignoreDifferences. This vulnerability has been patched in version(s) 2.10.7, 2.9.12 and 2.8.16.

Affected products

• argoproj argo-cd: from 2.1.0 before 2.8.17; from 2.9.0 before 2.9.13; from 2.10.0 before 2.10.8 — fixed in 2.10.8, 2.8.17, 2.9.13

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: argoproj argo-cd 2.10.8, 2.8.17, 2.9.13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/7893979a1e78d59cedd0ba790ded24e30bb40657
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/9e5cc5a26ff0920a01816231d59fdb5eae032b5a
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/e2df7315fb7d96652186bf7435773a27be330cac
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-9m6p-x4h2-6frq
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/7893979a1e78d59cedd0ba790ded24e30bb40657
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/9e5cc5a26ff0920a01816231d59fdb5eae032b5a
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/e2df7315fb7d96652186bf7435773a27be330cac
• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-9m6p-x4h2-6frq

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