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CVE-2026-40886

28
FAUCET Score

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.

First published: Apr 23, 2026Last modified: Apr 25, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.6.5, <= 3.6.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo_workflows:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
>= 3.7.0, < 3.7.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo_workflows:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo_workflows:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.7HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 18th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v4Fixed in: 4.0.5
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3Fixed in: 3.7.14
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-5jv8-h7qh-rf5phigh

Argo Workflows: Unchecked annotation parsing in pod informer crashes Argo Workflows Controller

Apr 23, 2026

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2026-40886
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
security.access.redhat.com / data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-40886.json
github.com / argoproj/argo-workflows/security/advisories/GHSA-5jv8-h7qh-rf5p
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