CVE-2025-23266 (GCVE-0-2025-23266)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-17 19:08
Modified
2026-02-26 17:50
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
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.
References
Impacted products
| 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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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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