CVE-2025-53819 — Nix's privilege dropping to build user broke for macOS
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…
Published: 2025-07-14 · CVSS: 7.9 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7