Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Container Toolkit - September 2024

Updated 09/25/2024 11:47 AM

NVIDIA has released a software update for NVIDIA® Container Toolkit and NVIDIA GPU Operator. To protect your system, install the software update as described in the installation section of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit documentation and the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

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Details

This section provides a summary of potential vulnerabilities that this security update addresses and their impact. Descriptions use CWE™, and base scores and vectors use CVSS v3.1 standards.

CVE ID Description Vector Base Score Severity CWE Impacts
CVE-2024-0132 NVIDIA Container Toolkit 1.16.1 or earlier contains a Time-of-check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability when used with default configuration where a specifically crafted container image may gain access to the host file system. This does not impact use cases where CDI is used. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering. AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H 9.0 Critical CWE‑367 Code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE-2024-0133 NVIDIA Container Toolkit 1.16.1 or earlier contains a vulnerability in the default mode of operation allowing a specially crafted container image to create empty files on the host file system. This does not impact use cases where CDI is used. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to data tampering. AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N 4.1 Medium CWE‑367 Data tampering

The NVIDIA risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk to your local installation. NVIDIA recommends evaluating the risk to your specific configuration.

Security Updates

The following table lists the software products and versions affected, and the updated version available from nvidia.com that includes this security update.

To protect your system, install the software update as described in the installation section of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit documentation and the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

CVE IDs Addressed Affected Products Platform or OS Affected Versions Updated Version
CVE‑2024-0132
CVE-2024-0133
NVIDIA Container Toolkit Linux All versions up to and including v1.16.1 v1.16.2
NVIDIA GPU Operator Linux All versions up to and including 24.6.1 24.6.2

Notes

To protect your system, install the software update as described in the installation section of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit documentation and the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

Acknowledgements

NVIDIA thanks Andres Riancho, Ronen Shustin, and Shir Tamari from Wiz Research for reporting issues CVE-2024-0132 and CVE-2024-0133.

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Revision History

Revision Date Description
1.0 25 September 2024 Initial release

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