Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting users package, versions >=0.8.0
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- published19 Jun 2025
- disclosed5 Jun 2025
- creditLuca Fulchir
Introduced: 5 Jun 2025
CVE-2025-5791 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for users.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Privilege Assignment via the supplementary groups of a user or the group access list of the current process. An attacker can escalate privileges by exploiting incorrect group listings unless the correct listing has exactly 1024 groups.
Note:
'users' crate is unmaintained, there is an actively maintained fork of it 'uzers' which contains the fix starting from version 0.11.1.