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CVE-2025-23266

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National Vulnerability Database Information

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.

CVSS Base Score: 9.0 (v3.1)

The CVSS Base Score is a score from 0 to 10 that represents the intrinsic severity of a vulnerability. A higher score indicates greater severity.

Value
0.02.55.07.510.0
Published on: 07/17/2025 20:15:28
Last modified: 06/17/2026 08:53:03
NIST: CVE source from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

CVSS Metrics Details

  • Base Severity: CRITICAL
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector: ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • User Interaction: NONE
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Database CWE: v4.18

CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path ↗

The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control.

Fonte: MITRE CWE


FIRST Information

EPSS Score: 0.0260

The EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a score from 0 to 1 that indicates the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the real world in the next 30 days. A higher value indicates a greater likelihood of exploitation.

Value
0.00.250.50.751.0

Percentile: 0.8416

The Percentile indicates how much higher this vulnerability's EPSS score is compared to all other vulnerabilities in the EPSS database. For example, a percentile of 0.90 (90%) means that 90% of vulnerabilities have an EPSS score equal to or lower than the current one.

Value
0.00.250.50.751.0

*Data updated as of: 2026-08-22


CISA Information (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities)

The CISA KEV Catalog lists vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited in the real world. If a CVE is present in this catalog, it indicates that the threat is immediate and mitigation should be a top priority.

CVE CVE-2025-23266 is not present in the CISA KEV Catalog. This indicates that it is not currently classified by CISA as an actively exploited vulnerability.


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NVD References

Exploit PoC from GitHub

  • jpts/cve-2025-23266-poc: PoC for NVIDIAScape bug
  • Mindasy/cve-2025-23266-migration-bypass: cve-2025-23266-migration-bypass
  • mrk336/CVE-2025-23266: CVE-2025-23266 targets FastAPI’s parse_request() function, where oversized HTTP headers cause a buffer overflow and remote code execution. The article explains how attackers can escape container boundaries, compromise AI workloads, and how tools like Sentinel can detect and mitigate the threat
  • r0binak/CVE-2025-23266: CVE-2025-23266 – Fully Weaponized NVIDIA Container Toolkit Exploit
  • CR1MS0N-Operator/security-research: Original offensive security research into Linux container boundary weaknesses. Whitepaper 1: OCI hook isolation failures in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit (CVE-2025-23266) under rootless Podman — four-way runc/crun comparison.