CVE-2025-54800 HIGH

CVE-2025-54800: Hydra persistent XSS in build metrics

Vendor Nixos
Product hydra
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published August 12, 2025
Last update August 12, 2025

CVSS base score

7.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Hydra is a continuous integration service for Nix based projects. Prior to commit dea1e16, a malicious package can introduce arbitrary JavaScript code into the Hydra database that is automatically evaluated in a client's browser when anyone visits the build page. This could be done by a third-party project as part of its build process. This also happens in other places like with hydra-release-name. This issue has been patched by commit dea1e16. A workaround involves either not building untrusted packages or not visiting the builds page.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 12, 2025 CVE published
August 12, 2025 Record updated

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