CVE-2025-53819 (GCVE-0-2025-53819)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-14 20:42 – Updated: 2025-07-15 19:50
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Summary
Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. Builds with Nix 2.30.0 on macOS were executed with elevated privileges (root), instead of the build users. The fix was applied to Nix 2.30.1. No known workarounds are available.
Severity ?
7.9 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-271 - Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors
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NixOS nix Affected: = 2.30.0
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