3.2
LOW CVSS 3.1
CVE-2025-52992
Nix, Lix, Guix Permission Bypass Vulnerability
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.

INFO

Published Date :

June 27, 2025, 2:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

June 30, 2025, 6:38 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-52992 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Nixos nix
CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 LOW [email protected]
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jun. 27, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
    Added CWE CWE-732
    Added Reference https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017
    Added Reference https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/
    Added Reference https://labs.snyk.io
    Added Reference https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/
    Added Reference https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-52992
    Added Reference https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-52992
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 3.2
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