CVE-2025-46415 describes a race condition vulnerability in the Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers that permits the removal of content from arbitrary folders. This affects specific versions of Nix (before 2.24.15, 2.26.4, 2.28.4, 2.29.1), Lix (before 2.91.2, 2.92.2, 2.93.1), and Guix (before 1.4.0-38.0e79d5b). The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.2, indicating a local attack vector with high attack complexity and a low impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed in the KEV catalog, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0, < 2.24.15CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.25.0, < 2.26.4CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.27.0, < 2.28.4CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.29.0, < 2.29.1CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:nixos:nix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.