{"id":"CVE-2025-53819","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-53819","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:20:57.338Z","title":"Builds with Nix 2.30.0 on macOS were executed with elevated privileges (root), instead of the build users.","description":"Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. Builds with Nix 2.30.0 on macOS were executed with elevated privileges (root), instead of the build users. The fix was applied to Nix 2.30.1. No known workarounds are available.","published":"2025-07-14T21:15:28.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:38:59.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.9,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-271"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00147,"percentile":0.03857,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.15%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/e2ef2cfcbc83ea01308ee64c38a58707ab23dec3","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13281","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13455","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-qc7j-jgf3-qmhg","source":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53819","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."}