# CVE-2025-5791: RUSTSEC-2025-0040 - `root` appended to group listings

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-5791-users-may-append-root-to-group-listings  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2025-01-15  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2025-5791 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2025-01-15

`root` appended to group listings

Technologies: [users (crates.io)](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/users). Vendors: [crates.io](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/crates-io).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2025-5791 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-5791 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2025-5791?** Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3.1, published 15 January 2025.

**Which products and versions are affected?** users (crates.io) SEMVER:introduced=0.8.0, SEMVER:introduced=0.8.0,last_affected=0.11.0.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2025-5791?** No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.

**Am I affected by CVE-2025-5791?** Check whether you run users (crates.io) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## Affected products

- users (crates.io) SEMVER:introduced=0.8.0, SEMVER:introduced=0.8.0,last_affected=0.11.0

## Identifiers

- CVE-2025-5791
- GHSA-m65q-v92h-cm7q
- RUSTSEC-2025-0040

## Related threats

- [Duplicate Advisory: users may append `root` to group listings](https://junglewise.ai/threats/duplicate-advisory-users-may-append-root-to-group-listings-893109e7)
- [Users vulnerable to unaligned read of `*const *const c_char` pointer](https://junglewise.ai/threats/users-vulnerable-to-unaligned-read-of-const-const-c-char-pointer-97caf246)
- [RUSTSEC-2023-0059 - Unaligned read of `*const *const c_char` pointer](https://junglewise.ai/threats/rustsec-2023-0059-unaligned-read-of-const-const-c-char-pointer-0cb39a8d)
- [RUSTSEC-2023-0040 - `users` crate is unmaintained](https://junglewise.ai/threats/rustsec-2023-0040-users-crate-is-unmaintained-51bfdda6)