CVE-2025-52993

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CVSS 3.1

5.6 medium

EPSS

<1%p2

Published

Jun 27, 2025 (Jun 27, 2025)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Weakness: CWE-362
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.1%)

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