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Medium 4.0Published Oct 14, 2026
CVE-2026-110452The multi-user installer in Nix before 2.35.3 sets the ownership of store contents to the user (who invoked the installer) even though it should be root ownership.
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The multi-user installer in Nix before 2.35.3 sets the ownership of store contents to the user (who invoked the installer) even though it should be root ownership.
- CVSS
- 4.0 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-708
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- mitre
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 14, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 14, 2026
Affected products
NixOS Nix nixos:nix (from the name) | before 2.28.8; from 2.29.0 before 2.30.6; from 2.31.0 before 2.31.6; from 2.32.0 before 2.34.9; from 2.35.0 before 2.35.3 | CNA record |
References
- https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-for-nix-and-lix-october-2026/80547
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