cve-2025-46416
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-27 00:00
Modified
2025-06-27 15:49
Summary
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.
Impacted products
NixOSNix
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