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Lemmit.Online botMAB to NixOS - Purely functionalEnglish · 3 months ago

Security Advisory: Privilege Escalations in Nix, Lix and Guix

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Security Advisory: Privilege Escalations in Nix, Lix and Guix

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Lemmit.Online botMAB to NixOS - Purely functionalEnglish · 3 months ago
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Summary This advisory follows up on the pre-announcement made last week. Nix and Lix are affected by a set of issues that can be combined to achieve root privilege escalation. These issues are identified as: CVE-2025-46415 CVE-2025-52991 CVE-2025-52992 CVE-2025-52993 Additionally, a privilege escalation to the build users (nixbld*) has been identified. This issue is known as CVE-2025-46416. This issue is only mitigated by Lix when the Pasta or LSM mitigations are enabled. This is a coordina...
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The original was posted on /r/nixos by /u/NateDevCSharp on 2025-07-09 11:39:59+00:00.

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