Description
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.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected products
- argoproj / argo-workflowsgithub.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3 >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.5 – github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3 >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.5
- argoproj / argo-workflowsgithub.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3 < 3.6.14 – github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3 < 3.6.14
- argoproj / argo-workflowsgithub.com/argoproj/argo-workflows <= 2.5.3-rc4 – github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows <= 2.5.3-rc4
References
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-xrqc-7xgx-c9vh
- PATCHhttps://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/commit/6b92af23f35aed4d4de8b04adcaf19d68f006de1
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p84v-gxvw-73pf
- MISChttps://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/blob/5291e0b01f94ba864f96f795bb500f2cfc5ad799/workflow/executor/executor.go#L1034-L1037