Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. The vulnerability allows unauthorized access to the sensitive settings exposed by /api/v1/settings endpoint without authentication. All sensitive settings are hidden except passwordPattern. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.11.3, 2.10.12, and 2.9.17.
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.