CVE-2026-110450

HIGHCVSS 8.0

Description

Nix before 2.35.3 and Lix before 2.95.4 allow privilege escalation via a repair operation because it could destroy and then replace a store path before content verification.

Timeline

Published:October 14th, 2026 5:16 AM

Last modified:October 19th, 2026 8:17 PM

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 8.0 (HIGH)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-696

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-for-nix-and-lix-october-2026/80547

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute