CVE-2026-110452

medium

Description

The multi-user installer in Nix before 2.35.3 sets the ownership of store contents to the user (who invoked the installer) even though it should be root ownership.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-100808

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-for-nix-and-lix-october-2026/80547

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-14

Updated: 2026-10-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00131