CVE-2025-46416

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

27/06/2025

Last modified:

30/06/2025

Description

The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers allow a bypass of build isolation in which a user can elevate their privileges to the build user account (e.g., nixbld or guixbuild). This affects Nix through 2.24.15, 2.26.4, 2.28.4, and 2.29.1; Lix through 2.91.2, 2.92.2, and 2.93.1; and Guix before 1.4.0-38.0e79d5b.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 2.90 LOW
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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

Base Score 3.x

2.90

Severity 3.x

LOW

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/
https://labs.snyk.io
https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46416
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-46416