CVE-2025-54864CWE-306

Hydra missing authentication when triggering evaluations through GitHub and Gitea plugins

Medium · published August 12, 2025

CVSS v4.0
6.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.9 · MEDIUM
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
EPSS
0.00382 · 30.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-306 · Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Published
2025-08-12T15:48Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 AUG 15:48Z
    Hydra missing authentication when triggering evaluations through GitHub and Gitea plugins
    cvelistv5