CVE-2026-44028CWE-674

An issue was discovered in Nix before 2.34.7 and Lix before 2.95.2

High · published May 5, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in Nix before 2.34.7 and Lix before 2.95.2. Unbounded recursion in the NAR (Nix Archive) parser could lead to a stack-to-heap overflow when the parser is run on a coroutine stack. The stack is allocated without a guard page, which means that a stack overflow could overwrite memory on the heap and could allow arbitrary code execution as the Nix daemon (run as root in multi-user installations) if ASLR hardening is bypassed. This can be exploited by all users able to connect to the daemon (e.g., in Nix, this is configurable via the allowed-users setting, defaulting to all users). The fixed versions are 2.34.7, 2.33.6, 2.32.8, 2.31.5, 2.30.5, 2.29.4, and 2.28.7 for Nix (introduced in 2.24.4); and 2.95.2, 2.94.2, and 2.93.4 for Lix (introduced in 2.93.0).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00176 · 6.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion
Published
2026-05-05T00:30Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 MAY 00:30Z
    An issue was discovered in Nix before 2.34.7 and Lix before 2.95.2
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