CVE-2025-23266

CRITICAL

Nvidia-container-toolkit < 1.17.8 - Untrusted Search Path

Title source: rule

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.

Exploits (5)

nomisec WORKING POC 13 stars
by jpts · poc
https://github.com/jpts/cve-2025-23266-poc
nomisec WRITEUP 2 stars
by mrk336 · poc
https://github.com/mrk336/CVE-2025-23266
nomisec WORKING POC 1 stars
by r0binak · poc
https://github.com/r0binak/CVE-2025-23266
nomisec WORKING POC 1 stars
by Mindasy · poc
https://github.com/Mindasy/cve-2025-23266-migration-bypass
nomisec WRITEUP
by ForeverLX · poc
https://github.com/ForeverLX/security-research

Scores

CVSS v3 9.0
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 20.4%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-426
Status published
Products (6)
NVIDIA/Container Toolkit NVIDIA Container Toolkit All versions up to and including 1.17.7 (CDI mode only for versions prior t
NVIDIA/Container Toolkit NVIDIA GPU Operator All versions up to and including 25.3.0 (CDI mode only for versions prior to 25.
NVIDIA/gpu-operator 0 - 25.3.2Go
NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin 0 - 0.17.3Go
NVIDIA/mig-parted 0 - 0.12.2Go
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit 0 - 1.17.8Go
Published Jul 17, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026