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.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
1.4
Exploitability Score :
1.4
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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
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