CVE-2025-46415 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2025-46415

A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package...

Vulnerability Description

A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers allows the removal of content from arbitrary folders. 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Nix
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 2.25.0, 2.27.0, 2.29.0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 27th, 2025
Last Modified: June 27th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-367

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Privilege Escalation
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1036 Masquerading
Defense Evasion
T1485 Data Destruction
Impact
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection