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CVE-2025-5791: users may append `root` to group listings

June 5, 2025 (updated June 6, 2025)

Affected versions append root to group listings, unless the correct listing has exactly 1024 groups.

This affects both:

  • The supplementary groups of a user
  • The group access list of the current process

If the caller uses this information for access control, this may lead to privilege escalation.

This crate is not currently maintained, so a patched version is not available.

Versions older than 0.8.0 do not contain the affected functions, so downgrading to them is a workaround.

References

  • access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5791
  • bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370001
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q
  • github.com/ogham/rust-users
  • github.com/ogham/rust-users/issues/44
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5791
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0040.html

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 0.8.0 up to 0.11.0

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 7.1 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Source file

cargo/users/CVE-2025-5791.yml

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