Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-47933

Critical

Published: 29 May 2025

Published
29 May 2025
Modified
27 August 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0007 21.0th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-47933 is a critical-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Argoproj Argo Cd. Its CVSS base score is 9.0 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Cloud Accounts (T1078.004); ranked at the 21.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Prior to versions 2.13.8, 2.14.13, and 3.0.4, an attacker can perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim via the API. Due to the improper filtering of URL protocols…

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in the repository page, an attacker can achieve cross-site scripting with permission to edit the repository. This issue has been patched in versions 2.13.8, 2.14.13, and 3.0.4.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1078.004 Cloud Accounts Stealth
Valid accounts in cloud environments may allow adversaries to perform actions to achieve Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
T1555.003 Credentials from Web Browsers Credential Access
Adversaries may acquire credentials from web browsers by reading files specific to the target browser.
T1609 Container Administration Command Execution
Adversaries may abuse a container administration service to execute commands within a container.
T1651 Cloud Administration Command Execution
Adversaries may abuse cloud management services to execute commands within virtual machines.
Why these techniques?

XSS allows JavaScript execution in victim's browser context, enabling session cookie theft (T1539, T1555.003) for valid cloud account abuse (T1078.004) and arbitrary API calls to create/modify/delete Kubernetes resources (T1609, T1651).

Affected Assets

argoproj
argo cd
1.2.0 · 1.2.1 — 2.13.8 · 2.14.0 — 2.14.13 · 3.0.0 — 3.0.4

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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