CVE-2025-59378 (GCVE-0-2025-59378)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-15 00:00
Modified
2025-09-15 20:23
Severity ?
5.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-669 - Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres
Summary
In guix-daemon in GNU Guix before 1618ca7, a content-addressed-mirrors file can be written to create a setuid program that allows a regular user to gain the privileges of the build user that runs it (even after the build has ended).
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