{"id":"CVE-2026-110450","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-110450","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:18:09.098Z","title":"Nix before 2.35.3 and Lix before 2.95.4 allow privilege escalation via a repair operation because it could destroy and then replace a store path before content verification.","description":"Nix before 2.35.3 and Lix before 2.95.4 allow privilege escalation via a repair operation because it could destroy and then replace a store path before content verification.","published":"2026-10-14T05:16:43.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T20:17:52.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-696"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00151,"percentile":0.04214,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-14","score":0.0015,"percentile":0.0378}]},"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":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-14T05:16:43.000Z","detail":{"score":"8.0","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-10-14T05:16:42.917Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 8.0)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-for-nix-and-lix-october-2026/80547","source":"cve@mitre.org"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-110450","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."}