CVE-2024-27297

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

11/03/2024

Last modified:

27/06/2025

Description

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. A fixed-output derivations on Linux can send file descriptors to files in the Nix store to another program running on the host (or another fixed-output derivation) via Unix domain sockets in the abstract namespace. This allows to modify the output of the derivation, after Nix has registered the path as "valid" and immutable in the Nix database. In particular, this allows the output of fixed-output derivations to be modified from their expected content. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.3.18 2.18.2 2.19.4 and 2.20.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

6.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix::::::::		2.3.18 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix::::::::	2.4 (including)	2.18.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix::::::::	2.19.0 (including)	2.19.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix::::::::	2.20.0 (including)	2.20.5 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-27297

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools