CVE-2025-46415

Severity Score

3.2

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Track*

*SSVC

Descriptions

MITRE

A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers allows the removal of content from arbitrary folders. 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.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Track*

Exploitation

Poc

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Partial

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2025-04-24 CVE Reserved
2025-06-27 CVE Published
2025-06-27 CVE Updated
2025-06-28 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

CAPEC

References (6)

URL	Tag	Source
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017
https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025
https://labs.snyk.io
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-46415
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46415

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URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
NixOS Search vendor "NixOS"		Nix Search vendor "NixOS" for product "Nix"				< 2.24.15 Search vendor "NixOS" for product "Nix" and version " < 2.24.15"		en		Affected
NixOS Search vendor "NixOS"		Nix Search vendor "NixOS" for product "Nix"				>= 2.25.0 < 2.26.4 Search vendor "NixOS" for product "Nix" and version " >= 2.25.0 < 2.26.4"		en		Affected
NixOS Search vendor "NixOS"		Nix Search vendor "NixOS" for product "Nix"				>= 2.27.0 < 2.28.4 Search vendor "NixOS" for product "Nix" and version " >= 2.27.0 < 2.28.4"		en		Affected
NixOS Search vendor "NixOS"		Nix Search vendor "NixOS" for product "Nix"				>= 2.29.0 < 2.29.1 Search vendor "NixOS" for product "Nix" and version " >= 2.29.0 < 2.29.1"		en		Affected