VYPR
Critical severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 25, 2023· Updated Mar 11, 2025

JWT audience claim is not verified

CVE-2023-22482

Description

Argo 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.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/argoproj/argo-cdGo
>= 1.8.2, < 2.3.142.3.14
github.com/argoproj/argo-cdGo
>= 2.4.0, < 2.4.202.4.20
github.com/argoproj/argo-cdGo
>= 2.5.0, < 2.5.82.5.8
github.com/argoproj/argo-cdGo
>= 2.6.0-rc1, < 2.6.0-rc52.6.0-rc5

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Patches

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