diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/networking/avahi-daemon.nix b/nixos/modules/services/networking/avahi-daemon.nix
index 72ccb910982c..73fc210728d8 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/networking/avahi-daemon.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/networking/avahi-daemon.nix
@@ -317,6 +317,47 @@ in
         Type = "dbus";
         ExecStart = "${cfg.package}/sbin/avahi-daemon --syslog -f ${avahiDaemonConf}";
         ConfigurationDirectory = "avahi/services";
+
+        # Hardening
+        CapabilityBoundingSet = [
+          # https://github.com/avahi/avahi/blob/v0.9-rc1/avahi-daemon/caps.c#L38
+          "CAP_SYS_CHROOT"
+          "CAP_SETUID"
+          "CAP_SETGID"
+        ];
+        DevicePolicy = "closed";
+        LockPersonality = true;
+        MemoryDenyWriteExecute = true;
+        NoNewPrivileges = true;
+        PrivateDevices = true;
+        PrivateTmp = true;
+        PrivateUsers = false;
+        ProcSubset = "pid";
+        ProtectClock = true;
+        ProtectControlGroups = true;
+        ProtectHome = true;
+        ProtectHostname = true;
+        ProtectKernelLogs = true;
+        ProtectKernelModules = true;
+        ProtectKernelTunables = true;
+        ProtectProc = "invisible";
+        ProtectSystem = "strict";
+        RestrictAddressFamilies = [
+          "AF_INET"
+          "AF_INET6"
+          "AF_NETLINK"
+          "AF_UNIX"
+        ];
+        RestrictNamespaces = true;
+        RestrictRealtime = true;
+        RestrictSUIDSGID = true;
+        SystemCallArchitectures = "native";
+        SystemCallFilter = [
+          "@system-service"
+          "~@privileged"
+          "@chown setgroups setresuid"
+        ];
+        UMask = "0077";
       };
     };
 
diff --git a/nixos/tests/avahi.nix b/nixos/tests/avahi.nix
index 4ae2f919f2f7..7a2d4bbd0ffc 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/avahi.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/avahi.nix
@@ -75,5 +75,7 @@ import ./make-test-python.nix {
     one.succeed("test `wc -l < out` -gt 0")
     two.succeed("avahi-browse -r -t _ssh._tcp | tee out >&2")
     two.succeed("test `wc -l < out` -gt 0")
+
+    one.log(one.execute("systemd-analyze security avahi-daemon.service | grep -v ✓")[1])
   '';
 } args