CVE-2024-32476 Denial of Service via malicious jqPathExpressions in ignoreDifferences

What is CVE-2024-32476?

CVE-2024-32476 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Argoproj Argo Cd, published on 26 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. There is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability via OOM using jq in ignoreDifferences. This vulnerability has been patched in version(s) 2.10.7, 2.9.12 and 2.8.16.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-32476?

9 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2, argo-cd and github.com/argoproj/argo-cd. It affects 1 product.

Products include Argoproj Argo Cd.

How do I fix CVE-2024-32476?

Upgrade github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2 to a fixed version for your release line: 2.8.17, 2.9.13 or 2.10.8.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-32476 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-32476 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Argoproj Argo Cd

• CVE-2025-55190 Argo CD: Project API Token Exposes Repository Credentials Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-29165 Argo CD will blindly trust JWT claims if anonymous access is enabled Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-40029 Cluster secret might leak in cluster details page in Argo CD Critical 9.9
• CVE-2022-24768 Improper access control allows admin privilege escalation in Argo CD Critical 9.9
• CVE-2024-21652 Argo CD vulnerable to Bypassing of Brute Force Protection via Application Crash and In-Memory Data Loss Critical 9.8

All Argoproj Argo Cd vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-argo-cd-2024-32476, GHSA-9m6p-x4h2-6frq, GO-2024-2792.