CVE-2025-23216

Description

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. A vulnerability was discovered in Argo CD that exposed secret values in error messages and the diff view when an invalid Kubernetes Secret resource was synced from a repository. The vulnerability assumes the user has write access to the repository and can exploit it, either intentionally or unintentionally, by committing an invalid Secret to repository and triggering a Sync. Once exploited, any user with read access to Argo CD can view the exposed secret data. The vulnerability is fixed in v2.13.4, v2.12.10, and v2.11.13.

How to fix CVE-2025-23216

To remediate CVE-2025-23216, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 2.13.4 or later
• —no fix listed
• —no fix listed
• —upgrade to 2.13.4 or later
• —upgrade to 2.11.13 or later

Is CVE-2025-23216 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (5)

• from 0, < 2.13.4
• from 0, <= 1.8.7
• from 0
• >= 2.13.0, < 2.13.4
• from 0, < 2.11.13, >= 2.12.0, < 2.12.10, >= 2.13.0, < 2.13.4

CVSS scores

References (6)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23216
• PATCHgithub.com/argoproj/argo-cd
• WEBgithub.com/argoproj/argo-cd/commit/6f5537bdf15ddbaa0f27a1a678632ff0743e4107
• WEBgithub.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-47g2-qmh2-749v