Security Advisory

CVE-2025-32438

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-04-15 19:57:04

Last updated 2025-04-15 20:08:58

Assigner GitHub_M

State PUBLISHED

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;.

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