CVE-2026-110450

high

Assigned by CNA: mitre

Published 2026-10-14 · Modified 2026-10-14

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CVSS v3

8.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

Nix before 2.35.3 and Lix before 2.95.4 allow privilege escalation via a repair operation because it could destroy and then replace a store path before content verification.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

77%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-for-nix-and-lix-october-2026/80547

CWEs

CWE-696

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.