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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.9 High

CVE-2025-53819

Nix's privilege dropping to build user broke for macOS

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

NixOS nix

  • = 2.30.0affected

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