Nix
This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Nix, a product in the operating systems space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.
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2024-102026-09
Latest CVEs
The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Nix.
- CVE-2026-64846Nix: Arbitrary file truncation outside the sandbox with recursive-nix experimental feature2.8
- CVE-2026-44029An issue was discovered in Nix before 2.34.7. Writing to arbitrary files can occur via "nix-prefetch-url --unpack" or "nix store prefetch-file --unpack" directory traversal. The fixed versions are ...5.3
- CVE-2026-44028An issue was discovered in Nix before 2.34.7 and Lix before 2.95.2. Unbounded recursion in the NAR (Nix Archive) parser could lead to a stack-to-heap overflow when the parser is run on a coroutine ...7.5
- CVE-2026-39860Nix sandbox escape: file write via symlink at FOD `.tmp` copy destination9.0
- CVE-2025-53819Nix's privilege dropping to build user broke for macOS7.9
- 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...3.2
- 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 ...3.2
- 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...5.6
- 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...3.2
- 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...2.9
- CVE-2024-51481Nix allows macOS sandbox escape via built-in builders
- CVE-2024-47174Credential leak when credentials are used with `<nix/fetchurl.nix>`5.9
- CVE-2024-45593Nix affected by unsafe NAR unpacking9.0
- CVE-2024-38531Nix sandbox escape3.6
- CVE-2024-27297Nix Corruption of fixed-output derivations6.3
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