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CVE-2025-52993
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.6
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-06-27T14:15:42.283 · Last modified 2026-06-17T09:37:26.120

Summary

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.

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