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CVE-2017-1000455

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-01-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-346

Description

GuixSD prior to Git commit 5e66574a128937e7f2fcf146d146225703ccfd5d used POSIX hard links incorrectly, leading the creation of setuid executables in "the store", violating a fundamental security assumption of GNU Guix.

Affected products

• GNU Guixsd: through 0.13.0

References

• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-10/msg00090.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-10/msg00090.html

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