CVE-2025-5791 (GCVE-0-2025-5791)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-06 13:10
Modified
2025-07-31 15:36
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 Unaffected: sha256:a6f29da891174e57fcfd131da7aa90c50459ba24164111b83120a1b91f2eabba   < *
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