What is CVE-2025-23266?

CVE-2025-23266 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Container Toolkit, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 9.0/10. Published 2025-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2025-23266?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.0 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-23266 known to be exploited?

18 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Nvidia Container Toolkit

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…

EPSS: 0.025 (83.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Nvidia Container Toolkit — versions 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)

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-426 — Untrusted Search Path

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-23266?: CVE-2025-23266 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Container Toolkit, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 9.0/10. Published 2025-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2025-23266?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-23266 known to be exploited?: 18 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.