CVE-2025-46416
The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers allow a bypass of build isolation in which a user can elevate their privileges to the build user account (e.g., nixbld or guixbuild). This affects Nix through 2.24.15, 2.26.4, 2.28.4, and 2.29.1; Lix through 2.91.2, 2.92.2, and 2.93.1; and Guix before 1.4.0-38.0e79d5b.
Scoring
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS base score
- 2.9
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.16%
- CWE
- CWE-282
- Published
- 2025-06-27
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- NixOS Nix
- NixOS Nix
- NixOS Nix
- NixOS Nix
Weakness type
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