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CVE-2025-538197.9HighCWE-271

CVE-2025-53819: Nix's privilege dropping to build user broke for macOS

NixOS · nix

Affected: NixOS · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

0.1%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
3rd percentile
050100

Higher than 3% of scored CVEs

7.9HighCVSS 3.1
LowHigh

DescriptionCVE.org

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 products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

  • NixOS · nix= 2.30.0

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Exploitation
Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public check
No public nuclei template
Vendor
NixOS
Published
July 2025

CoverageNo articles yet

No CyberSIXT article names CVE-2025-53819 yet, so there is no coverage timeline, action brief or change log for it. Everything on this page comes from the public CVE record, CISA KEV, EPSS and the nuclei template index. Search the archive or see the CVEs in the news.

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