ghsa-jq8x-v7jw-v675
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-06-06 15:30
Modified
2025-07-31 18:31
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
Duplicate Advisory: users may append `root` to group listings
Details

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original 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.

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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": [],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-266"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-06-06T23:16:21Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-06-06T14:15:23Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "### Duplicate Advisory\nThis advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q. This link is maintained to preserve external references.\n\n### Original Description\nA flaw was found in the user\u0027s 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.",
  "id": "GHSA-jq8x-v7jw-v675",
  "modified": "2025-07-31T18:31:57Z",
  "published": "2025-06-06T15:30:53Z",
  "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/errata/RHSA-2025:12359"
    },
    {
      "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": "WEB",
      "url": "https://crates.io/crates/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": "Duplicate Advisory: users may append `root` to group listings",
  "withdrawn": "2025-06-06T23:16:21Z"
}


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