CVE-2025-5791 (GCVE-0-2025-5791)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-06 13:10 – Updated: 2025-11-20 07:41
VLAI
Title
Users: `root` appended to group listings
Summary
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.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0.8.0 , < 0.11.1 (semver)
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 Unaffected: sha256:a6f29da891174e57fcfd131da7aa90c50459ba24164111b83120a1b91f2eabba , < * (rpm)
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer     cpe:/a:redhat:trusted_profile_analyzer:1
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Date Public
2025-01-15 12:00
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