Users: `root` appended to group listings
cve-program · CVE-2025-5791
PublishedA flaw was found in the user's crate for Rust. This vulnerability allows privilege escalation via incorrect group listing when a user or process has fewer than exactly 1024 groups, leading to the erroneous inclusion of the root group in the access list.
Read the publisher's advisoryeuvd · EUVD-2025-16945
PublishedA flaw was found in the user's crate for Rust. This vulnerability allows privilege escalation via incorrect group listing when a user or process has fewer than exactly 1024 groups, leading to the erroneous inclusion of the root group in the access list.
Read the publisher's advisorynvd · CVE-2025-5791
PublishedA flaw was found in the user's crate for Rust. This vulnerability allows privilege escalation via incorrect group listing when a user or process has fewer than exactly 1024 groups, leading to the erroneous inclusion of the root group in the access list.
Read the publisher's advisoryosv · GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q
PublishedAffected 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. ## Recommended alternatives - [`uzers`](https://crates.io/crates/uzers) (an actively maintained fork of the `users` crate) - [`sysinfo`](https://crates.io/crates/sysinfo)
Read the publisher's advisoryosv · RUSTSEC-2025-0040
PublishedAffected 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. ## Recommended alternatives - [`uzers`](https://crates.io/crates/uzers) (an actively maintained fork of the `users` crate) - [`sysinfo`](https://crates.io/crates/sysinfo)
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CVE-2025-5791 · CVE overview and exploitation status
cve-program · CVE-2025-5791
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12359
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5791
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370001
- https://crates.io/crates/users
- https://github.com/ogham/rust-users/issues/44
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0040.html
euvd · EUVD-2025-16945
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12359
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5791
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370001
- https://crates.io/crates/users
- https://github.com/ogham/rust-users/issues/44
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0040.html
nvd · CVE-2025-5791
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12359
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5791
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370001
- https://crates.io/crates/users
- https://github.com/ogham/rust-users/issues/44
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0040.html
osv · GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5791
- https://github.com/ogham/rust-users/issues/44
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5791
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370001
- https://github.com/ogham/rust-users
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0040.html
osv · RUSTSEC-2025-0040
Related changes
Linked by CVE identifier- Users: `root` appended to group listings · Affected-version evidence changed · 4 Nov 2026