FKIE_CVE-2025-52991

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-06-27 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:37
Severity
3.2 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017
cve@mitre.orghttps://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/
cve@mitre.orghttps://labs.snyk.io
cve@mitre.orghttps://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-52991
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-52991
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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      "value": "Los gestores de paquetes Nix, Lix y Guix utilizan por defecto directorios de compilaci\u00f3n temporales en una ubicaci\u00f3n legible y modificable para todos. Esto permite a los usuarios est\u00e1ndar enga\u00f1ar al gestor de paquetes para que utilice directorios con contenido preexistente, lo que podr\u00eda provocar acciones no autorizadas o manipulaci\u00f3n de datos. Esto afecta a Nix anteriores a las versiones 2.24.15, 2.26.4, 2.28.4 y 2.29.1; Lix anteriores a las versiones 2.91.2, 2.92.2 y 2.93.1; y Guix anteriores a la versi\u00f3n 1.4.0-38.0e79d5b."
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