What is CVE-2023-50726?

CVE-2023-50726 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Argoproj Argo-Cd, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-03-13.

How severe is CVE-2023-50726?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Argoproj Argo-Cd

CVE-2023-50726

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. "Local sync" is an Argo CD feature that allows developers to temporarily override an Application's manifests with locally-defined manifests. Use of the feature should generally be limited to highly-trusted users, since it allows the user to bypass any merge protections in git. An improper validation bug allows users who have `create` privileges but not `override` privileges to sync local manifests on app creation. All other restrictions, including AppProject restrictions are still enforced. The only restriction which is not enforced is that the manifests come from some approved git/Helm/OCI source. The bug was introduced in 1.2.0-rc1 when the local manifest sync feature was added. The bug has been patched in Argo CD versions 2.10.3, 2.9.8, and 2.8.12. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may mitigate the risk of branch protection bypass by removing `applications, create` RBAC access. The only way to eliminate the issue without removing RBAC access is to upgrade to a patched version.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published 2024-03-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (42.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 43rd percentile — 42.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Argoproj Argo-Cd — versions >= 1.2.0-rc1, < 2.8.12, >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.8, >= 2.10.0, < 2.10.3
Argoproj Argo Cd

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-g623-jcgg-mhmm (Vendor Advisory)
github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/3b8f673f06c2d228e01cbc830e5cb57cef008978 (Patch)
argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/operator-manual/rbac (Product)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-50726?: CVE-2023-50726 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Argoproj Argo-Cd, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-03-13.
How severe is CVE-2023-50726?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.