Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 12, 2025· Updated Aug 12, 2025
Hydra missing authentication when triggering evaluations through GitHub and Gitea plugins
CVE-2025-54864
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.
Affected products
2- Range: < f7bda02
- NixOS/hydrav5Range: < f7bda020c6144913f134ec616783e57817f7686f
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- github.com/NixOS/hydra/commit/f7bda020c6144913f134ec616783e57817f7686fmitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/NixOS/hydra/security/advisories/GHSA-qpq3-646c-vgx9mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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