Nixpkgs security vulnerabilities

Nixpkgs is a collection of over 100,000 software packages open source from NixOS. It can be installed using the Nix package manager. Nixpkgs versions 25.05 and earlier contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from the ability for any system user to execute commands with t...

Nixpkgs security vulnerabilities

Nixpkgs is a collection of over 100000 packages open-sourced by NixOS. It can be installed using the Nix Package Manager. A security vulnerability exists in Nixpkgs that stems from the fact that a local user can execute a program with root privileges at shutdown...