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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.0

CVE-2025-23266 json

NVIDIA Container Toolkit for all platforms contains an Untrusted Search Path

published 2025-07-17 15 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2025-21811 , GHSA-vmg3-7v43-9g23 , GO-2025-3992

cvss
9.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit 1.17.8
  • go github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin 0.17.3
  • go github.com/NVIDIA/gpu-operator 25.3.2
  • go github.com/NVIDIA/mig-parted 0.12.2
  • nvidia container_toolkit 1.17.8
  • nvidia nvidia_container_toolkit 1.17.8
  • nvidia gpu_operator 25.3.2
  • nvidia nvidia_gpu_operator 25.3.2
  • nvidia kubernetes_device_plugin 0.17.3
  • nvidia nvidia_kubernetes_device_plugin 0.17.3
  • nvidia kubernetes_mig_manager 0.12.2
  • nvidia mig_manager 0.12.2
  • toolbox RHEL 10.0 0.2-1.el10_0
  • toolbox-tests RHEL 10.0 0.2-1.el10_0
  • toolbox RHEL 9 0.2-1.el9_6
  • toolbox-tests RHEL 9 0.2-1.el9_6

red hat advisories RHSA-2025:13674RHSA-2025:13673

  • nvidia-container-toolkit SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3 +12 more 1.18.0-150200.5.17.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20251023T162509-150000.1.110.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:4187-1SUSE-SU-2025:3799-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20251023T162509-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15666-1

  • toolbox AlmaLinux 9 0.2-1.el9_6
  • toolbox-tests AlmaLinux 9 0.2-1.el9_6
  • toolbox AlmaLinux 10 0.2-1.el10_0
  • toolbox-tests AlmaLinux 10 0.2-1.el10_0

almalinux advisories ALSA-2025:13673ALSA-2025:13674

  • nvidia-container-toolkit CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 1.17.8-1

azure linux advisories AZL-65648AZL-65651

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-23266 updated cvss 9.0

nvidia-container-toolkit: Privilege Escalation via Hook Initialization in NVIDIA Container Toolkit

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 toolbox
    affected: workaround, no fix available “No mitigation is currently available that meets Red Hat Product Security’s standards for usability, deployment, applicability, or stability.”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) toolbox 0.2-1.el9_6, toolbox-tests 0.2-1.el9_6
    fixed: vendor fix “No mitigation is currently available that meets Red Hat Product Security’s standards for usability, deployment, applicability, or stability.” RHSA-2025:13673
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) toolbox 0.2-1.el10_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10) toolbox-tests 0.2-1.el10_0
    fixed: vendor fix “No mitigation is currently available that meets Red Hat Product Security’s standards for usability, deployment, applicability, or stability.” RHSA-2025:13674
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) rhelai1/bootc-amd-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-intel-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-nvidia-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-azure-amd-rhel9, rhelai1/instructlab-amd-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-aws-nvidia-rhel9, +7 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 toolbox, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

3.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit
<1.17.8
1.17.8
go github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin
<0.17.3
0.17.3
go github.com/NVIDIA/gpu-operator
<25.3.2
all versions
25.3.2
go github.com/NVIDIA/mig-parted
<0.12.2
0.12.2

Affected products

  • NVIDIA Container Toolkit

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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