What is CVE-2024-38531?

CVE-2024-38531 is a low-severity vulnerability in Nixos Nix, classified under Insecure Preserved Inherited Permissions. CVSS score: 3.6/10. Published 2024-06-28.

How severe is CVE-2024-38531?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.6 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Nixos Nix

CVE-2024-38531

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. A build process has access to and can change the permissions of the build directory. After creating a setuid binary in a glo…

EPSS: 0.000 (6.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.6 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Nixos Nix — versions >= 2.23.0, < 2.23.1, >= 2.22.0, < 2.22.2, >= 2.21.0, < 2.21.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-278 — Insecure Preserved Inherited Permissions

References

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-q82p-44mg-mgh5 (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10501 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-38531?: CVE-2024-38531 is a low-severity vulnerability in Nixos Nix, classified under Insecure Preserved Inherited Permissions. CVSS score: 3.6/10. Published 2024-06-28.
How severe is CVE-2024-38531?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.6 out of 10.