ghsa-hpxm-4hff-8prf
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-06-27 15:31
Modified
2025-06-27 15:31
Severity ?
5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-52993"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-362"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-06-27T14:15:42Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-hpxm-4hff-8prf",
  "modified": "2025-06-27T15:31:25Z",
  "published": "2025-06-27T15:31:25Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52993"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://labs.snyk.io"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-52993"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-52993"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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