CVE-2025-52993 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-52993

Vendor Nixos
Product Nix
Weakness CWE-362
Published June 27, 2025
Last update June 27, 2025

CVSS base score

5.6/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers enables changing the ownership of arbitrary files to the UID and GID of the build user (e.g., nixbld* or guixbuild*). 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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 27, 2025 CVE published
June 27, 2025 Record updated