Upstream information

CVE-2025-52991 at MITRE

Description

The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers default to using temporary build directories in a world-readable and world-writable location. This allows standard users to deceive the package manager into using directories with pre-existing content, potentially leading to unauthorized actions or data manipulation. This affects Nix before 2.24.15, 2.26.4, 2.28.4, and 2.29.1; Lix before 2.91.2, 2.92.2, and 2.93.1; and Guix before 1.4.0-38.0e79d5b.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (MITRE)
Base Score 3.2
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1245319 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • nix >= 2.29.1-1.1
  • nix-bash-completion >= 2.29.1-1.1
  • nix-devel >= 2.29.1-1.1
  • nix-doc >= 2.29.1-1.1
  • nix-fish-completion >= 2.29.1-1.1
  • nix-zsh-completion >= 2.29.1-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15248

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jun 24 18:30:13 2025
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 20:11:41 2025