{"id":"CVE-2025-46415","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-46415","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:14:47.328Z","title":"A race condition in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers allows the removal of content from arbitrary folders.","description":"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.","published":"2025-06-27T14:15:38.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:26:22.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":3.2,"severity":"LOW","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-367"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00139,"percentile":0.0322,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.14%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://labs.snyk.io","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46415","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=CVE-2025-46415","source":"cve@mitre.org"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46415","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}