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CVE-2025-52992

Published: Jun 27, 2025

Modified: Jun 27, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

3.2

LOW

Description

The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers fail to properly set permissions when a derivation build fails. This may allow arbitrary processes to modify the content of a store outside of the build sandbox. This affects Nix before 2.24.15, 2.26.4, 2.28.4, and 2.29.1; Lix before 2.91.2, 2.92.2, and 2.93.1; and Guix before 1.4.0-38.0e79d5b.

VendorProductVersions

NixOS

Nix

affected
0 - < 2.24.15
affected
2.25.0 - < 2.26.4
affected
2.27.0 - < 2.28.4
affected
2.29.0 - < 2.29.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-732

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

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