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CVE-2025-5791: Users: `root` appended to group listings

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-06-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-266

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: all versions
• Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1: all versions — fixed in sha256:a6f29da891174e57fcfd131da7aa90c50459ba24164111b83120a1b91f2eabba
• Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 sha256:a6f29da891174e57fcfd131da7aa90c50459ba24164111b83120a1b91f2eabba. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12359
• 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

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