Improper Ownership Management Affecting guix package, versions [,1.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GUIX-15067750
  • published23 Jan 2026
  • disclosed27 Jun 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-46416  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-282  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade guix to version 1.5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Ownership Management via the build isolation feature. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to the build user account by bypassing isolation mechanisms.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1