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CVE-2025-53819

Nix's privilege dropping to build user broke for macOS PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
NixOS / nixaffected = 2.30.0

CWE

CWE-271

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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