CVE-2025-23266 (GCVE-0-2025-23266)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-17 19:08
Modified
2025-08-16 21:33
Severity ?
9.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
NVIDIA Container Toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in some hooks used to initialize the container, where an attacker could execute arbitrary code with elevated permissions. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to escalation of privileges, data tampering, information disclosure, and denial of service.
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Vendor Product Version
NVIDIA Container Toolkit Version: NVIDIA Container Toolkit All versions up to and including 1.17.7 (CDI mode only for versions prior to 1.17.5)
Version: NVIDIA GPU Operator All versions up to and including 25.3.0 (CDI mode only for versions prior to 25.3.0)
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