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CVE-2025-52991 (GCVE-0-2025-52991)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-06-27 15:46
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Summary
The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers default to using temporary build directories in a world-readable and world-writable location. This allows standard users to deceive the package manager into using directories with pre-existing content, potentially leading to unauthorized actions or data manipulation. 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.
Severity
3.2 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-27 15:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
NixOS Nix Affected: 0 , < 2.24.15 (semver)
Affected: 2.25.0 , < 2.26.4 (semver)
Affected: 2.27.0 , < 2.28.4 (semver)
Affected: 2.29.0 , < 2.29.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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