CVE-2025-46416

Published: Jun 27, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

2.9

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 1.4 / Impact: 1.4

Source: MITRE (Secondary)

Description

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.

Related CWEs

Improper Ownership Management

The product assigns the wrong ownership, or does not properly verify the ownership, of an object or resource.

References (6)

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://labs.snyk.io

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46416

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-46416

Source: cve@mitre.org

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