github - ghsa-vmg3-7v43-9g23

ghsa-vmg3-7v43-9g23

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-07-17 21:32

Modified

2025-08-17 00:31

Severity ?

9.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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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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

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.

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URL

Tags

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5659

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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