7.1
High
CVE-2025-5791 Users: `root` appended to group listings
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 3.1 detail
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitable with local access to the machine, with an ordinary account and without any user action; an attacker can seriously compromise confidentiality, integrity or availability.
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- Interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Affected products and versions
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.10 1.10 | earliest → < 1.10-1753885668 | 1.10-1753885668 |
References
- RHSA-2025:12359 access.redhat.com
- access.redhat.com access.redhat.com
- RHBZ#2370001 bugzilla.redhat.com
- crates.io crates.io
- github.com github.com
- rustsec.org rustsec.org
Timeline
- Published
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