{"cve":"CVE-2025-46416","nvd":{"published":"2025-06-27T14:15:38.163","modified":"2026-06-17T09:26:22.340","status":"Deferred","description":"The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers allow a bypass of build isolation in which a user can elevate their privileges to the build user account (e.g., nixbld or guixbuild). This affects Nix through 2.24.15, 2.26.4, 2.28.4, and 2.29.1; Lix through 2.91.2, 2.92.2, and 2.93.1; and Guix before 1.4.0-38.0e79d5b.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","score":2.9},"cwes":["CWE-282"],"references":["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-2025-46416"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:03:23.287444849+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-46416","score":0.00185,"percentile":0.08142,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}