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CVE-2025-46416

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Date: June 26, 2025

Guix guix-daemon fails to fully isolate its build environment, allowing attackers to exfiltrate setuid binaries through abstract Unix-domain sockets

Severity Score

2.9

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/

Url: https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/

Url: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46416

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46416

Url: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2025-46416

Severity Score

2.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Access Control

CWE-284

Improper Ownership Management

CWE-282

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version https://github.com/Millak/guix.git - no_fix

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	2.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

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