GHSA-M65Q-V92H-CM7Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-05 01:17 – Updated: 2025-06-06 23:16
VLAI
Summary
users may append `root` to group listings
Details

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.

Recommended alternatives

  • uzers (an actively maintained fork of the users crate)
  • sysinfo
Severity
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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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "crates.io",
        "name": "users"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0.8.0"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "0.11.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-5791"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-266"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-06-05T01:17:28Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "Affected versions append `root` to group listings, unless the correct listing has exactly 1024 groups.\n\nThis affects both:\n\n- The supplementary groups of a user\n- The group access list of the current process\n\nIf the caller uses this information for access control, this may lead to privilege escalation.\n\nThis crate is not currently maintained, so a patched version is not available.\n\nVersions older than 0.8.0 do not contain the affected functions, so downgrading to them is a workaround.\n\n## Recommended alternatives\n- [`uzers`](https://crates.io/crates/uzers) (an actively maintained fork of the `users` crate)\n- [`sysinfo`](https://crates.io/crates/sysinfo)",
  "id": "GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q",
  "modified": "2025-06-06T23:16:38Z",
  "published": "2025-06-05T01:17:28Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5791"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ogham/rust-users/issues/44"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5791"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370001"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/ogham/rust-users"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0040.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "users may append `root` to group listings"
}



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