CVE-2026-44029
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44029
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-44029.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-44029
- Aliases
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- GHSA-gr92-w2r5-qw5p
- Downstream
- Published
- 2026-05-05T00:51:05.533Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T08:13:28.318964635Z
- Severity
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- 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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An issue was discovered in Nix before 2.34.7. Writing to arbitrary files can occur via "nix-prefetch-url --unpack" or "nix store prefetch-file --unpack" directory traversal. The fixed versions are 2.34.7, 2.33.6, 2.32.8, 2.31.5, 2.30.5, 2.29.4, and 2.28.7 (introduced in 2.24.7);
- Database specific
{ "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/44xxx/CVE-2026-44029.json", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-36" ], "cna_assigner": "mitre" }- References
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- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/04/33
- https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-local-privilege-escalation-in-lix-and-nix/77407
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/44xxx/CVE-2026-44029.json
- https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-gr92-w2r5-qw5p
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44029
Affected packages
Git / github.com/nixos/nix
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/nixos/nix
- Events
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IntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixed
- Database specific
{ "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "2.24.7" }, { "fixed": "2.28.7" }, { "introduced": "2.29.0" }, { "fixed": "2.29.4" }, { "introduced": "2.30.0" }, { "fixed": "2.30.5" }, { "introduced": "2.31.0" }, { "fixed": "2.31.5" }, { "introduced": "2.32.0" }, { "fixed": "2.32.8" }, { "introduced": "2.33.0" }, { "fixed": "2.33.6" }, { "introduced": "2.34.0" }, { "fixed": "2.34.7" } ] }