CVE-2025-54864 PUBLISHED

Hydra missing authentication when triggering evaluations through GitHub and Gitea plugins

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 31.07.2025 Published: 12.08.2025 Updated: 12.08.2025

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: 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 Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor NixOS
Product hydra
Versions
  • Version < f7bda020c6144913f134ec616783e57817f7686f is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function CWE