UBUNTU-CVE-2025-52991 (CVE-2025-52991)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2025-06-27 14:15 – Updated: 2026-09-16 17:16 – Source website
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Details

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
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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      "ecosystem_specific": {
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          {
            "binary_name": "guix",
            "binary_version": "1.3.0-4ubuntu0.1~esm1"
          }
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      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "guix",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/guix@1.3.0-4ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-apps/jammy"
      },
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        "1.3.0-4",
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      },
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  ],
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  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-52991",
  "modified": "2026-09-16T17:16:05Z",
  "published": "2025-06-27T14:15:00Z",
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      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52991"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/788"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/commit/7173c2c0cad8afc9d8d1ad26f345b5a04f47716a"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/commit/be8aca065118aa4485c02f991c51bea89034defa"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
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  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2025-52991"
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}



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