Headline
GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q: users may append `root` to group listings
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
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
References
- ogham/rust-users#44
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0040.html