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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-06-27T00:00:00.000Z

Last Modified :

2025-06-27T15:49:08.285Z

Source :

mitre
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-46416 vulnerability.

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REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-46416.

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