CVE-2025-5791 | THREATINT

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Description

A 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.

Reserved 2025-06-06 | Published 2025-06-06 | Updated 2025-06-06 | Assigner redhat

HIGH: 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Problem types

Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Product status

Default status

affected

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affected

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affected

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affected

Default status

affected

Timeline

2025-06-03:	Reported to Red Hat.
2025-01-15:	Made public.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5791 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370001 (RHBZ#2370001) issue-tracking

crates.io/crates/users

github.com/ogham/rust-users/issues/44

rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0040.html

cve.org (CVE-2025-5791)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-5791)

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https://cve.threatint.eu/CVE/CVE-2025-5791

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