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CVE-2025-46415

Published: Jun 27, 2025Updated: Jun 30, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-367
3.2LOW
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 98.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:HPR:NUI:NS:CC:NI:NA:L
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:LAvailability
Low
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Weaknesses

CWE-367

Affected Products

Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения
oss-projectaka fsf
NixOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
LixOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
The GNU Project
oss-project·USaka gnu
GuixOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
NixOS
oss-project
NixOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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Attack Graph

Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/
lix.systems
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/
guix.gnu.org
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017
discourse.nixos.org
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