CVE-2025-23266: critical vulnerability in NVIDIA Container Toolkit
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48Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 9epss 3.3%
from disclosure to weapon2 days
Published on NVDJul 17
1st PoC+2d
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
NVIDIA · Container Toolkitpublic PoCs found — 5
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References
https://kidbomb.github.io/posts/nvidia-container-escape-cve-2025-23266/https://kidbomb.github.io/posts/nvidia-container-escape-cve-2025-23266-part-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44818412https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5659https://www.wiz.io/blog/nvidia-ai-vulnerability-cve-2025-23266-nvidiascape