CVE-2026-40886Published

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…

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nvd · CVE-2026-40886

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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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Source analysis status: Modified

Weakness classifications: CWE-129 · CWE-1285

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published: 2026-04-23T19:17:28.617

lastModified: 2026-10-26T22:10:00.163

1 source CPE criteria · context only

cpe:2.3:a:argoproj:argo_workflows:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*

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Source published: 23 Apr 2026 19:17:28 UTC
Source modified: 26 Oct 2026 22:10:00 UTC
Observed here: 27 Oct 2026 10:10:07 UTC
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CVSS 3.1 · [email protected] · Secondary · 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 3.1 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c · Secondary · 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H