CVE-2025-46415 | BDVDB-2026-284050 Detail
NixOSNix
Description#
A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers allows the removal of content from arbitrary folders. 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.
Impact#
Per CVSS v3.1: confidentiality impact none, integrity impact none, availability impact low. Attack vector: local.
Weaknesses#
- CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
References#
- https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017
- https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/
- https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/
- https://labs.snyk.io
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-46415
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46415
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.