Duplicate Advisory: users may append `root` to group listings

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description A flaw was found in the user's crate for Rust. This vulnerability allows privilege escalation via incorrect group...

AZL-63848 CVE-2025-5791 affecting package kata-containers-cc for versions less than 3.2.0.azl2-7

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...

AZL-63771 CVE-2025-5791 affecting package kata-containers-cc 3.15.0.aks0-7

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...

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

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...

CVE-2025-5791

The CVE-2025-5791 entry concerns the Rust users crate with privilege escalation via incorrect group listing when a process has fewer than 1024 groups, which can incorrectly include the root group in the access list. Affected component: the user’s Rust crate (rust-users). Local/exploit path is ind...

RUSTSEC-2025-0040 `root` appended 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...

`root` appended 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...

SUSE CVE-2013-3713

The image creation configuration in aaabase before 16.26.1 for openSUSE 13.1 KDE adds the root user to the "users" group when installing from a live image, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information and possibly have other unspecified impacts, as demonstrated by reading /etc/shadow...

CVE-2022-0358

A flaw was found in the QEMU virtio-fs shared file system daemon virtiofsd implementation. This flaw is strictly related to CVE-2018-13405. A local guest user can create files in the directories shared by virtio-fs with unintended group ownership in a scenario where a directory is SGID to a certa...

Improper Access Control in collectiveaccess/pawtucket2

Description After the previous patch fix, users can join the Root group by specifying http://PAWTUCKET-URL/pawtucket/index.php/LoginReg/joinGroup/groupcode/ Proof of Concept http://PAWTUCKET-URL/pawtucket/index.php/LoginReg/joinGroup/groupcode/ Impact Attackers can join the Root group without bei...

trousers: fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of by the tss user, it fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed...

CVE-2020-3595

A vulnerability in Cisco SD-WAN Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root group on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to incorrect permissions being set when the affected command is executed. An attacker could exploit this...

Cisco SD-WAN Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco SD-WAN Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root group on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to incorrect permissions being set when the affected command is executed. An attacker could exploit this...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24330

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of by the tss user, it fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6558

The pamfscrypt module in fscrypt before 0.2.4 may incorrectly restore primary and supplementary group IDs to the values associated with the root user, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a successful login through certain applications that use Linux-PAM aka pam...

Postfix: Privilege escalation

Background Postfix is a mail server and an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Description By default, Berkeley DB reads a DBCONFIG configuration file from the current working directory. This is an undocumented behavior. Impact A local attacker, by using a specially crafted DGCONFIG...

GLSA-201709-11 : GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201709-11 GIMPS: Root privilege escalation It was discovered that Gentoos default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script calls an unsafe chown -R command in checkconfi...

GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

Background GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, is a software capable of find Mersenne Primes, which are used in cryptography. GIMPS is also used for hardware testing. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation...

MAN DB: Privilege escalation

Background MAN DB is a man replacement that utilizes BerkelyDB instead of flat files. Description The /var/cache/man directory as part of the MAN DB package has group permissions set to root. Impact A local user who does not belong to the root group, but has the ability to modify the /var/cache/m...

CVE-2016-2867

IBM InfoSphere Streams before 4.0.1.2 and IBM Streams before 4.1.1.1 do not properly implement the runAsUser feature, which allows local users to obtain root group privileges via unspecified vectors...