Version: v1.5 (2023-03-06)

As a deployment tool, Argo CD needs to have production access which makes security a very important topic. The Argoproj team takes security very seriously and is continuously working on improving it.

Many organisations these days employ security scanners to validate their container images before letting them on their clusters, and that is a good thing. However, the quality and results of these scanners vary greatly, many of them produce false positives and require people to look at the issues reported and validate them for correctness. A great example of that is, that some scanners report kernel vulnerabilities for container images just because they are derived from some distribution.

We kindly ask you to not raise issues or contact us regarding any issues that are found by your security scanner. Many of those produce a lot of false positives, and many of these issues don't affect Argo CD. We do have scanners in place for our code, dependencies and container images that we publish. We are well aware of the issues that may affect Argo CD and are constantly working on the remediation of those that affect Argo CD and our users.

If you believe that we might have missed an issue that we should take a look at (that can happen), then please discuss it with us. If there is a CVE assigned to the issue, please do open an issue on our GitHub tracker instead of writing to the security contact e-mail, since things reported by scanners are public already and the discussion that might emerge is of benefit to the general community. However, please validate your scanner results and its impact on Argo CD before opening an issue at least roughly.

We currently support the last 3 minor versions of Argo CD with security and bug fixes.

We regularly perform patch releases (e.g. 1.8.5 and 1.7.12) for the supported versions, which will contain fixes for security vulnerabilities and important bugs. Prior releases might receive critical security fixes on best effort basis, however, it cannot be guaranteed that security fixes get back-ported to these unsupported versions.

In rare cases, where a security fix needs complex re-design of a feature or is otherwise very intrusive, and there's a workaround available, we may decide to provide a forward-fix only, e.g. to be released the next minor release, instead of releasing it within a patch branch for the currently supported releases.

If you find a security related bug in Argo CD, we kindly ask you for responsible disclosure and for giving us appropriate time to react, analyze and develop a fix to mitigate the found security vulnerability.

We will do our best to react quickly on your inquiry, and to coordinate a fix and disclosure with you. Sometimes, it might take a little longer for us to react (e.g. out of office conditions), so please bear with us in these cases.

We will publish security advisories using the GitHub Security Advisories feature to keep our community well-informed, and will credit you for your findings (unless you prefer to stay anonymous, of course).

There are two ways to report a vulnerability to the Argo CD team:

• By opening a draft GitHub security advisory: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/new
• By e-mail to the following address: cncf-argo-security@lists.cncf.io

We're happy to announce that the Argo project is collaborating with the great folks over at Hacker One and their Internet Bug Bounty program to reward the awesome people who find security vulnerabilities in the four main Argo projects (CD, Events, Rollouts and Workflows) and then work with us to fix and disclose them in a responsible manner.

If you report a vulnerability to us as outlined in this security policy, we will work together with you to find out whether your finding is eligible for claiming a bounty, and also on how to claim it.

See the operator manual security page for additional information about Argo CD's security features and how to make your Argo CD production ready.