Name: CVE-2025-52992: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2025-06-27T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2025-52992, CVSS 3.2, EPSS 0.00171

The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers fail to properly set permissions when a derivation build fails. This may allow arbitrary processes to modify the content of a store outside of the build sandbox. 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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 3.2
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Jun 26, 2025

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CVSS Details

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