CVE-2025-52993 — Race Condition in Guix

CWE-362 — Race Condition4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.6MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Nixos NIXDebian Guix
Timeline
PublishedJun 27

Description

A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers enables changing the ownership of arbitrary files to the UID and GID of the build user (e.g., nixbld* or guixbuild*). 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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:LExploitability: 1.4 | Impact: 3.7

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/guix
▶CVEListV5nixos/nix2.25.0 — 2.26.4+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2025-52993: A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers enables changing the ownership of arbitrary files to the UID and GID of the build user (e↗2025-06-27
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GHSA
GHSA-hpxm-4hff-8prf: A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers enables changing the ownership of arbitrary files to the UID and GID of the build user (e↗2025-06-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2025-52993: guix - A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers enables changing the...↗2025
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