CVE-2021-3557

MEDIUM

Argocd - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in argocd. Any unprivileged user is able to deploy argocd in their namespace and with the created ServiceAccount argocd-argocd-server, the unprivileged user is able to read all resources of the cluster including all secrets which might enable privilege escalations. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961929

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 39.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (2)
argoproj/argo_cd < 1.1.1
redhat/openshift_gitops 1.1
Published Feb 16, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026