CVE-2025-53819

Published Jul 14, 2025

Last updated 3 days ago

CVSS high 7.9

Overview

Description
Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. Builds with Nix 2.30.0 on macOS were executed with elevated privileges (root), instead of the build users. The fix was applied to Nix 2.30.1. No known workarounds are available.
Source
security-advisories@github.com
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.9
Impact score
5.3
Exploitability score
2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-271

Social media

Hype score
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  1. CVE-2025-53819 Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. Builds with Nix 2.30.0 on macOS were executed with elevated privileges (root), instead of the build users. … https://t.co/QiAPfrXGZe

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References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.