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CVE-2025-46415 Detail

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.


Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Hyperlink Resource
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/
https://labs.snyk.io
https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46415
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-46415

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition MITRE  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-46415
NVD Published Date:
06/27/2025
NVD Last Modified:
06/30/2025
Source:
MITRE