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Fencer Vulns
high 8.3

CVE-2025-23359 json

NVIDIA Container Toolkit for Linux contains a Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability when used with default configuration, where…

published 2025-02-12 20 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-3156

cvss
8.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NVIDIA Container Toolkit for Linux contains a Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability when used with default configuration, where a crafted container image could gain access to the host file system. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.

Patch / fix

  • nvidia container_toolkit 1.17.4
  • nvidia nvidia_container_toolkit 1.17.4
  • nvidia gpu_operator 24.9.2
  • nvidia nvidia_gpu_operator 24.9.2
  • 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

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:4187-1

  • nvidia-container-toolkit CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 1.17.4-1

azure linux advisories AZL-56852AZL-56857

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-2025-23359 updated cvss 8.3

nvidia-container-toolkit: TOCTOU Vulnerability in NVIDIA Container Toolkit

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 toolbox, toolbox-tests Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 toolbox Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) rhelai1/bootc-nvidia-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-aws-nvidia-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-gcp-nvidia-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-ibm-nvidia-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-azure-nvidia-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

3.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • thehackernews.com https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/incomplete-patch-in-nvidia-toolkit.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • NVIDIA Container Toolkit
  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.