Controller crash-loop via global metrics transport race
Published Oct 28, 2024 · Updated Apr 4, 2025
Race condition in Argo Workflows 3.6.0-rc1 allows remote authenticated users to repeatedly crash the workflow controller. The metrics transport wrapper stores each Kubernetes API client's RoundTripper in one global object, so overlapping SPDY requests can replace it and trigger a nil-pointer panic. Workflow-creation access is required; rapidly creating and terminating daemon workflows can crash-loop the controller and stall other workflows.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in Argo Workflows 3.6.0-rc1 allows remote authenticated users to repeatedly crash the workflow controller. The metrics transport wrapper stores each Kubernetes API client's RoundTripper in one global object, so overlapping SPDY requests can replace it and trigger a nil-pointer panic. Workflow-creation access is required; rapidly creating and terminating daemon workflows can crash-loop the controller and stall other workflows.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-47827
- Published
- Oct 28, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 4, 2025
- Vendor
- Argo Project
- Product
- Argo Workflows
- Classifications
- CWE-1108, CWE-362, T1499
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 28, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 4, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=>= 3.6.0-rc1, < 3.6.0-rc2
- Affected versionversion=3.6.0-rc1 <3.6.0-rc2
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- Daemon workflow controller crash proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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