What is CVE-2024-51481?

CVE-2024-51481 is a vulnerability in Nixos Nix, classified under Protection Mechanism Failure. Published 2024-10-31.

Is CVE-2024-51481 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Nixos Nix

CVE-2024-51481

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. On macOS, built-in builders (such as `builtin:fetchurl`, exposed to users with `import <nix/fetchurl.nix>`) were not executed in the macOS sandbox. Thus, these builders (which are…

EPSS: 0.001 (23.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Nixos Nix — versions < 2.18.9, >= 2.19.0, < 2.19.7, 2.20.9, 2.21.5, 2.22.4, 2.23.4, 2.24.10, >= 2.20.0, < 2.20.9

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-693 — Protection Mechanism Failure

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-wf4c-57rh-9pjg (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/597fcc98e18e3178734d06a9e7306250e8cb8d74 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-51481?: CVE-2024-51481 is a vulnerability in Nixos Nix, classified under Protection Mechanism Failure. Published 2024-10-31.
Is CVE-2024-51481 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.