Privilege escalation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
CVE-2025-5791
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.
EPSS: 0.002 (6.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.
Affected products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat Openshift Sandboxed Containers 1.1 — versions sha256:a6f29da891174e57fcfd131da7aa90c50459ba24164111b83120a1b91f2eabba
- Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking)
- secalert@redhat.com
- secalert@redhat.com
- secalert@redhat.com
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2025-5791?
- CVE-2025-5791 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Incorrect Privilege Assignment. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2025-06-06.
- How severe is CVE-2025-5791?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2025-5791 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.