CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-32438

8.8 HIGH Published 2025-04-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Deferred
Published: 2025-04-15
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses: CWE-378, CWE-379

Description

make-initrd-ng is a tool for copying binaries and their dependencies. Local privilege escalation affecting all NixOS users. With systemd.shutdownRamfs.enable enabled (the default) a local user is able to create a program that will be executed by root during shutdown. Patches exist for NixOS 24.11 and 25.05 / unstable. As a workaround, set systemd.shutdownRamfs.enable = false;.

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-378 Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions weakness
CWE-379 Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions weakness

References

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/b17590193d8e5697000c23c66afcf11e1753734d github.com
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/fbf76bf72b161b9f4ab97704a8258776d5f3ffba github.com
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/security/advisories/GHSA-m7pq-h9p4-8rr4 github.com

CVE-2025-32438

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Weakness · CWE (2)

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