CVE-2025-59378

5.7 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (5.7). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In guix-daemon in GNU Guix before 1618ca7, a content-addressed-mirrors file can be written to create a setuid program that allows a regular user to gain the privileges of the build user that runs it (even after the build has ended).

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.7 medium

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

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 3% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-669
Published: 2025-09-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/commit/1618ca7aa2ee8b6519ee9fd0b965e15eca2bfe45
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerability-2025-2/

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