Nixos vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

Vendor
The short answer

Nixos has 15 published vulnerabilities across 5 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Nixos, with 6. If you run Nixos software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Nixos products have the most vulnerabilities?

Nixos leads with 6 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

Known exploited

Which Nixos vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Nixos's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Nixos flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 72%

    A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the rsync daemon.

    CVSS9.8Published15 Jan 2025
  2. 8.8%

    A flaw was found in rsync which could be triggered when rsync compares file checksums.

    CVSS7.5Published14 Jan 2025
  3. 4.7%

    A flaw was found in rsync. When using the `--safe-links` option, the rsync client fails to properly verify if a symbolic link destination sent from the server contains another symbolic link within it.

    CVSS6.5Published14 Jan 2025
  4. 2.3%

    A path traversal vulnerability exists in rsync.

    CVSS6.5Published14 Jan 2025
  5. 1.8%

    A flaw was found in rsync. It could allow a server to enumerate the contents of an arbitrary file from the client's machine.

    CVSS6.1Published14 Jan 2025
  6. 0.6%

    Hydra is a Continuous Integration service for Nix based projects.

    CVSS7.5Published27 Aug 2024
  7. 0.6%

    Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems.

    CVSS9.0Published10 Sep 2024
  8. 0.6%

    Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems.

    CVSS6.3Published11 Mar 2024
  9. 0.5%

    Hydra is a Continuous Integration service for Nix based projects.

    CVSS4.6Published22 Apr 2024
  10. 0.4%

    Nix through 2.3 allows local users to gain access to an arbitrary user's account because the parent directory of the user-profile directories is world writable.

    CVSS7.8Published9 Oct 2019
Every product

All Nixos products we track.

4 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

This directory lists the 4 Nixos products with at least one tracked version, of 5 in our catalogue.

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Our catalogue lists 15 published vulnerabilities across 5 products and 258 versions from Nixos.

None of Nixos's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Nixos, with 6 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

Create a Precursor Intelligence account and track the Nixos products you run. We match them against every published flaw, give each one a risk score from 0 to 100 and tell you as soon as we spot one that affects you, by email, in the app or by webhook.