CVE-2025-52993
June 27, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
5.6
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.
Product(s) Impacted
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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| Nixos |
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| Lix |
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| Guix |
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Weaknesses
Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
*CPE(s)
Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language | Software Edition | Target Software | Target Hardware | Other Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | nixos | nix | <2.24.15 | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| a | nixos | nix | <2.26.4 | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| a | nixos | nix | <2.28.4 | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| a | nixos | nix | <2.29.1 | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| a | lix | lix | <2.91.2 | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| a | lix | lix | <2.92.2 | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| a | lix | lix | <2.93.1 | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| a | guix | guix | <1.4.0-38.0e79d5b | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
References
Tags
CVSS Score
CVSS Data - 3.1
- Attack Vector: LOCAL
- Attack Complexity: HIGH
- Privileges Required: NONE
- Scope: CHANGED
- Confidentiality Impact: LOW
- Integrity Impact: LOW
- Availability Impact: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Timeline
Published: June 27, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
Last Modified: June 27, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
Last Modified: June 27, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
Status : Received
CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
More infoSource
cve@mitre.org
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