Guix

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Guix, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 8 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Guix.

• CVE-2025-59378In guix-daemon in GNU Guix before 1618ca7, a content-addressed-mirrors file can be written to create a setuid program that allows a regular user to gain the privileges of the build user that runs i...5.7Sep 15, 2025
• CVE-2025-52991The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers default to using temporary build directories in a world-readable and world-writable location. This allows standard users to deceive the package manager into ...3.2Jun 27, 2025
• CVE-2025-52993A 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 be...5.6Jun 27, 2025
• CVE-2025-52992The 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 sand...3.2Jun 27, 2025
• CVE-2025-46416The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers allow a bypass of build isolation in which a user can elevate their privileges to the build user account (e.g., nixbld or guixbuild). This affects Nix throug...2.9Jun 27, 2025
• CVE-2025-46415A 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, 2.9...3.2Jun 27, 2025
• CVE-2021-27851Local privilege escalation in GNU Guix via guix-daemon and '--keep-failed'5.5Apr 26, 2021
• CVE-2019-18192GNU Guix 1.0.1 allows local users to gain access to an arbitrary user's account because the parent directory of the user-profile directories is world writable, a similar issue to CVE-2019-17365.7.8Oct 17, 2019