Medium severity4.3OSV Advisory· Published May 18, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-36050

Description

Nix through 2.22.1 mishandles certain usage of hash caches, which makes it easier for attackers to replace current source code with attacker-controlled source code by luring a maintainer into accepting a malicious pull request.

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Affected products

Nixos/Nixllm-fuzzy2 versions
<=2.22.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=2.22.1
- (no CPE)range: 1.0, 1.1, 1.10, …

Patches

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References

discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-supply-chain-security-project/34345nvd
discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017/26nvd
github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/969nvd
github.com/NixOS/ofborg/issues/68nvd

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