CVE-2024-27297

Publication date 11 March 2024

Last updated 14 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. A fixed-output derivations on Linux can send file descriptors to files in the Nix store to another program running on the host (or another fixed-output derivation) via Unix domain sockets in the abstract namespace. This allows to modify the output of the derivation, after Nix has registered the path as "valid" and immutable in the Nix database. In particular, this allows the output of fixed-output derivations to be modified from their expected content. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.3.18 2.18.2 2.19.4 and 2.20.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
guix 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
nix 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needed
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.18.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5+esm2
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal Not in release

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Notes

sbeattie

this CVE had been incorrectly triaged in Ubuntu as affecting the linux kernel; this has been corrected.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.3 · Medium
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L