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Status published
Medium
CVE-2025-52993
A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package...
Vulnerability Description
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.
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.
References
- https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017
- https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/
- https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/
- https://labs.snyk.io
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-52993
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-52993
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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:L/I:L/A:L