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CVE-2026-44029

Published: May 5, 2026

Modified: May 5, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

An issue was discovered in Nix before 2.34.7. Writing to arbitrary files can occur via "nix-prefetch-url --unpack" or "nix store prefetch-file --unpack" directory traversal. The fixed versions are 2.34.7, 2.33.6, 2.32.8, 2.31.5, 2.30.5, 2.29.4, and 2.28.7 (introduced in 2.24.7);

VendorProductVersions

NixOS

Nix

affected
2.24.7 - < 2.28.7
affected
2.29.0 - < 2.29.4
affected
2.30.0 - < 2.30.5
affected
2.31.0 - < 2.31.5
affected
2.32.0 - < 2.32.8

+2 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-36

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

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