CVE-2024-51481

Nix allows macOS sandbox escape via built-in builders

State
Published
Severity
1.0 Low
Published
Oct 31, 2024
Updated
Oct 31, 2024
Reserved
Oct 28, 2024

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Description

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 running under the `nixbld*` users) had read access to world-readable paths and write access to world-writable paths outside of the sandbox. This issue is fixed in 2.18.9, 2.19.7, 2.20.9, 2.21.5, 2.22.4, 2.23.4, and 2.24.10. Note that sandboxing is not enabled by default on macOS. The Nix sandbox is not primarily intended as a security mechanism, but as an aid to improve reproducibility and purity of Nix builds. However, sandboxing *can* mitigate the impact of other security issues by limiting what parts of the host system a build has access to.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.01.0 LowCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure

Affected Products

ProductVersions
nixNixOS
  • < 2.18.9Affected
  • >= 2.19.0, < 2.19.7, 2.20.9, 2.21.5, 2.22.4, 2.23.4, 2.24.10Affected
  • >= 2.20.0, < 2.20.9Affected
  • >= 2.21.0, < 2.21.5Affected
  • >= 2.22.0, < 2.22.4Affected
  • >= 2.23.0, < 2.23.4Affected
  • >= 2.24.0, < 2.24.10Affected

References

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