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CVE-2025-54864: Hydra missing authentication when triggering evaluations through GitHub and Gitea plugins

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-306

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

• NixOS hydra: before 2025-08-12 — fixed in 2025-08-12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: NixOS hydra 2025-08-12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/commit/f7bda020c6144913f134ec616783e57817f7686f
• https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/security/advisories/GHSA-qpq3-646c-vgx9

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