CVE-2023-22482

Summary

CVECVE-2023-22482
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-01-26 21:18:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 04:06:00 UTC
DescriptionArgo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Versions of Argo CD starting with v1.8.2 and prior to 2.3.13, 2.4.19, 2.5.6, and 2.6.0-rc-3 are vulnerable to an improper authorization bug causing the API to accept certain invalid tokens. OIDC providers include an `aud` (audience) claim in signed tokens. The value of that claim specifies the intended audience(s) of the token (i.e. the service or services which are meant to accept the token). Argo CD _does_ validate that the token was signed by Argo CD's configured OIDC provider. But Argo CD _does not_ validate the audience claim, so it will accept tokens that are not intended for Argo CD. If Argo CD's configured OIDC provider also serves other audiences (for example, a file storage service), then Argo CD will accept a token intended for one of those other audiences. Argo CD will grant the user privileges based on the token's `groups` claim, even though those groups were not intended to be used by Argo CD. This bug also increases the impact of a stolen token. If an attacker steals a valid token for a different audience, they can use it to access Argo CD. A patch for this vulnerability has been released in versions 2.6.0-rc3, 2.5.6, 2.4.19, and 2.3.13. There are no workarounds.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-863

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Linuxfoundation Argo-cd All All All All
Application Linuxfoundation Argo-cd 2.6.0 rc1 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Argo-cd 2.6.0 rc2 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Argo-cd 2.6.0 rc3 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Argo-cd 2.6.0 rc4 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
JWT audience claim is not verified · Advisory · argoproj/argo-cd · GitHub MISC github.com
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