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High · 7.9 CVE-2025-53819 EUVD-2025-21392

Nix's privilege dropping to build user broke for macOS

Published Jul 14, 2025 · Updated Jul 15, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
NixOS nix = 2.30.0 —

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