GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/06/GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q/GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q
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Published
2025-06-05T01:17:28Z
Modified
2026-07-15T16:30:47.661657473Z
Severity
  • 7.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
users may append `root` to group listings
Details

Affected versions append root to group listings, unless the correct listing has exactly 1024 groups.

This affects both:

  • The supplementary groups of a user
  • The group access list of the current process

If the caller uses this information for access control, this may lead to privilege escalation.

This crate is not currently maintained, so a patched version is not available.

Versions older than 0.8.0 do not contain the affected functions, so downgrading to them is a workaround.

Recommended alternatives

  • uzers (an actively maintained fork of the users crate)
  • sysinfo
Database specific 
{
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-06-05T01:17:28Z",
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-266"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

crates.io / users

Package

Name
users
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:cargo/users

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0.8.0
Last affected
0.11.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/06/GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q/GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q.json"