Vulnerability Details CVE-2023-36476
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 37.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.9
Products affected by CVE-2023-36476
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:-
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.10
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.11
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.12
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.5
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.6
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.7
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.8
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cpe:2.3:a:nixos:calamares-nixos-extensions:0.3.9