CVE Alert: CVE-2025-53819

Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-53819
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 Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
7/14/2025, 9:15:28 PM
🔥 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- 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
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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