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.

Published: 2025-07-17 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-23266 is rated Moderate Risk (49.2/100): CVSS Critical severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.17%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-23266

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-13 0.05% 0.17% +0.11%
2 2026-03-03 0.05% 0.05% +0.01%
3 2025-11-21 — 0.05% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-23266

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.0 3.1 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:A)
Attacker has to be nearby on the network—same office, same link, that vibe—not the whole wide internet.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.3 6.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-23266

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-23266

GHSA-vmg3-7v43-9g23 · Severity: critical · Ecosystem: go — NVIDIA Container Toolkit for all platforms contains an Untrusted Search Path

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-23266

vendor priority summary link
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-23266
suse critical CVE-2025-23266 severity critical: SUSE including 2 source package names (govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20251023T162509-1.1, nvidia-container-toolkit-1.18.0-150200.5.17.1), 18 product×package rows across 18 product lines (SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS, … (18 product lines)): Fixed 18. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-23266/

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-23266

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-23266

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