Low severity3.2NVD Advisory· Published Jun 27, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-52991
CVE-2025-52991
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.
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Affected products
5<1.4.0-38.0e79d5b+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <1.4.0-38.0e79d5b
- (no CPE)range: <1.4.0-38.0e79d5b
- Range: <2.91.2, <2.92.2, <2.93.1
Patches
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