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Vulnerability record · CVE-2024-45593 · published 10 September 2024

CVE-2024-45593: Nixos nix path traversal vulnerability

Nixos · Nix

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. A bug in Nix 2.24 prior to 2.24.6 allows a substituter or malicious user to craft a NAR that, when unpacked by Nix, causes Nix to write to arbitrary file system locations to which the Nix process has access. This will be with root permissions when using the Nix daemon. This issue is fixed in Nix 2.24.6.

8.8 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 0.60% · top 53.3% CWE-22 · Path traversal
8.8CVSS 3.1 base score
0.60%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
2References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. A bug in Nix 2.24 prior to 2.24.6 allows a substituter or malicious user to craft a NAR that, when unpacked by Nix, causes Nix to write to arbitrary file system locations to which the Nix process has access. This will be with root permissions when using the Nix daemon. This issue is fixed in Nix 2.24.6.

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

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/eb11c1499876cd4c9c188cbda5b1003b36ce2e59 Patch
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-h4vv-h3jq-v493 Vendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2024-45593), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.