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CVE-2025-23266

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

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.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Container Toolkit: NVIDIA Container Toolkit All versions up to and including 1.17.7 (CDI mode only for versions prior to 1.17.5), NVIDIA GPU Operator All versions up to and including 25.3.0 (CDI mode only for versions prior to 25.3.0)

References

• 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

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