CVE-2025-53819

Nix's privilege dropping to build user broke for macOS

CVSS 7.9 HIGHEPSS 0.1%CWE-271

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L

Affected products

NixOS · nix

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References

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/e2ef2cfcbc83ea01308ee64c38a58707ab23dec3 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13281 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13455 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-qc7j-jgf3-qmhg