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High
CVE-2025-53819
Nix's privilege dropping to build user broke for macOS
Vulnerability Description
Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. Builds with Nix 2.30.0 on macOS were executed with elevated privileges (root), instead of the build users. The fix was applied to Nix 2.30.1. No known workarounds are available.
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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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
= 2.30.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
July 14th, 2025
Last Modified:
July 15th, 2025
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
Weaknesses (CWE)
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.