CVE-2025-52993

medium

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.

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-52993

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-52993

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

Published: 2025-06-27

Updated: 2025-06-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.6

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00012