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Paper/Archive/CVE-2025-23266

CVE-2025-23266

NVIDIA Container Toolkit — NVIDIA Container Toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in some hooks used to initialize the container, where an attacker cou…

EPSS 3%CVSS 9.0
critical.is priorityof 100
45
CVSS 9.0 (CNA)9.0 / 10 × 3027.0Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 88.6.886 × 2017.7No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
Container ToolkitNVIDIA Container Toolkit All versions up to and including 1.17.7 (CDI mode only for versions prior to 1.17.5)–CNA
Container ToolkitNVIDIA GPU Operator All versions up to and including 25.3.0 (CDI mode only for versions prior to 25.3.0)–CNA

Scores by source

nvidia (CNA)9.0CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

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