CVE-2025-52993

Published Jun 27, 2025

Last updated 18 days ago

CVSS medium 5.6

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
5.6
Impact score
3.7
Exploitability score
1.4
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

cve@mitre.org
CWE-362

Social media

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References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.