CVE-2025-32438
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-32438
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-32438.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-32438
- Aliases
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- GHSA-m7pq-h9p4-8rr4
- Published
- 2025-04-15T19:57:04.668Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-15T01:49:03.011410968Z
- Severity
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- 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Local privilege escalation in make-initrd-ng
- Details
-
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;.
- Database specific
{ "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/32xxx/CVE-2025-32438.json", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-378", "CWE-379" ], "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M", "unresolved_ranges": [ { "extracted_events": [ { "fixed": "b17590193d8e5697000c23c66afcf11e1753734d" }, { "fixed": "fbf76bf72b161b9f4ab97704a8258776d5f3ffba" } ], "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD" } ] }- References
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- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/32xxx/CVE-2025-32438.json
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/security/advisories/GHSA-m7pq-h9p4-8rr4
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32438
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/b17590193d8e5697000c23c66afcf11e1753734d
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/fbf76bf72b161b9f4ab97704a8258776d5f3ffba