CVE-2025-46415

Description

A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers allows the removal of content from arbitrary folders. 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

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-46415

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46415

https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/

https://labs.snyk.io

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS