CVE-2025-32438

Published April 15th, 2025

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CVSS v3

8.8

HIGH

CVSS v2

N/A

Affected

PROJECT

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;.

NixOS/nixpkgs

Nix Packages collection & NixOS

GitHub

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