CVE-2025-23266

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.0 Critical

Status

Deferred - psirt@nvidia.com

Published

2025-07-17

Last modified

2026-02-26

Weaknesses

CWE-426

Affected products

• Container Toolkit (Nvidia)

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