CVE-2023-36476

Description

calamares-nixos-extensions provides Calamares branding and modules for NixOS, a distribution of GNU/Linux. Users of calamares-nixos-extensions version 0.3.12 and prior who installed NixOS through the graphical calamares installer, with an unencrypted `/boot`, on either non-UEFI systems or with a LUKS partition different from `/` have their LUKS key file in `/boot` as a plaintext CPIO archive attached to their NixOS initrd. A patch is available and anticipated to be part of version 0.3.13 to backport to NixOS 22.11, 23.05, and unstable channels. Expert users who have a copy of their data may, as a workaround, re-encrypt the LUKS partition(s) themselves.

Weakness classification

• security-advisories@github.com: CWE-200
• nvd@nist.gov: CWE-522

Primary references

• security-advisories@github.com — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
• security-advisories@github.com — Exploit, Issue Tracking
• security-advisories@github.com — Patch
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Issue Tracking
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch