CVE-2025-53819

7.9 highEPSS 0.1%

High (7.9). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.9 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 3% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-271
Published: 2025-07-14
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/e2ef2cfcbc83ea01308ee64c38a58707ab23dec3
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13281
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13455
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-qc7j-jgf3-qmhg

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