CVE-2024-52867

Summary

CVE-2024-52867 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the guix-daemon component in GNU Guix before version 5ab3c4c. The issue stems from accessible build outputs that can be exploited by local users before proper metadata handling, such as for setuid and setgid programs. This vulnerability can potentially grant elevated privileges. Users can mitigate this risk by implementing certain pull, reconfigure, and restart actions within the product. Both the specific commit 5ab3c4c and an additional commit 5582241 are required to fully resolve the vulnerability.

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