CVE-2025-53819 – Nix Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-53819 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Jul. 14, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
    Added CWE CWE-271
    Added Reference https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/e2ef2cfcbc83ea01308ee64c38a58707ab23dec3
    Added Reference https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13281
    Added Reference https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13455
    Added Reference https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-qc7j-jgf3-qmhg
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