CVE-2025-23266

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

Publication date:

17/07/2025

Last modified:

16/08/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.00 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.00

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5659
https://kidbomb.github.io/posts/nvidia-container-escape-cve-2025-23266-part-2/
https://kidbomb.github.io/posts/nvidia-container-escape-cve-2025-23266/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44818412
https://www.wiz.io/blog/nvidia-ai-vulnerability-cve-2025-23266-nvidiascape