CVE-2025-5791 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.1