VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2025-53819

CVSS score7.9 HIGH
EPSS probability0.15%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-07-14
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-271

Primary references