CVE-2025-54864

HIGH

Nixos Hydra < 2025-08-12 - Missing Authentication

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Hydra is a continuous integration service for Nix based projects. Prior to commit f7bda02, /api/push-github and /api/push-gitea are called by the corresponding forge without HTTP Basic authentication. Both forges do however feature HMAC signing with a secret key. Triggering an evaluation can be very taxing on the infrastructure when large evaluations are done, introducing potential denial of service attacks on the host running the evaluator. This issue has been patched by commit f7bda02. A workaround involves blocking /api/push-github and /api/push-gitea via a reverse proxy.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-306
Status published
Products (1)
nixos/hydra < 2025-08-12
Published Aug 12, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026