CVE-2025-53819 json
Nix's privilege dropping to build user broke for macOS
published 2025-07-14 15 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-21392
- cvss
- 7.9
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.1%
- EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
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.
Patch / fix
- nixos nix 2.30.1
- github.com/NixOS/nix@e2ef2cf commit
- github.com/NixOS/nix#13281 pull request
- github.com/NixOS/nix#13455 pull request
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 15 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 7.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L |
Affected products
- NixOS nix
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors
References
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-53819
- NVD CVE-2025-53819
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