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CVE-2025-53819 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/e2ef2cfcbc83ea01308ee64c38a58707ab23dec3 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13281 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13455 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-qc7j-jgf3-qmhg GitHub, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-53819
NVD Published Date:
07/14/2025
NVD Last Modified:
07/15/2025
Source:
GitHub, Inc.