CVE-2026-44028 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 05.05.2026 Updated: 05.05.2026

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).

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor NixOS
Product Nix
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.24.4 to 2.28.7 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.29.0 to 2.29.4 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.30.0 to 2.30.5 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.31.0 to 2.31.5 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.32.0 to 2.32.8 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.33.0 to 2.33.6 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.34.0 to 2.34.7 (excl.)
Vendor Lix Project
Product Lix
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.93.0 to 2.93.4 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.94.0 to 2.94.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.95.0 to 2.95.2 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion CWE