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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Argo Workflows: Unchecked annotation parsing in pod informer crashes Argo Workflows controller | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-129 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-04-23T18:12:05.782Z
Reserved: 2026-04-15T15:57:41.719Z
Link: CVE-2026-40886
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-23T19:17:28.617
Modified: 2026-04-23T19:17:28.617
Link: CVE-2026-40886
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