Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-45707 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in NIX Project NIX

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
nix-project
CWE-787
critical
NVD
Published: 2021-12-27
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

An issue was discovered in the nix crate 0.16.0 and later before 0.20.2, 0.21.x before 0.21.2, and 0.22.x before 0.22.2 for Rust. unistd::getgrouplist has an out-of-bounds write if a user is in more than 16 /etc/groups groups.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Nix_Project
12

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References