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CVE-2025-53819
Nix's privilege dropping to build user broke for macOS
High7.9EPSS 0.15%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.9.
Weakness
Affected products
References (4)
- https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-qc7j-jgf3-qmhg (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13281 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13455 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/e2ef2cfcbc83ea01308ee64c38a58707ab23dec3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-53819)Record last updated .