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CVE-2025-54864

6.9 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (6.9) in nixos hydra. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.9 medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-306
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

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