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-2025-23359 | NVIDIA Container Toolkit for Linux contains a Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability when used with default configuration, where a crafted container image could gain access to the host file system. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering. | AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H | 8.3 | High | CWE‑367 | Code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, data tampering |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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CVE‑2025-23359
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NVIDIA Container Toolkit | Linux | All versions up to and including 1.17.3 | 1.17.4 |
| NVIDIA GPU Operator | Linux | All versions up to and including 24.9.1 | 24.9.2 |
Notes
The fix for this vulnerability changes the default behavior of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit. By default the NVIDIA CUDA compatibility libraries from /usr/local/cuda/compat in the container are no longer mounted to the default library path in the container being run. This may affect certain applications that depend on this behavior.
A feature flag, allow-cuda-compat-libs-from-container was included in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit to allow users to opt-in to the previous behavior if required.
Warning: Opting-in to the previous behavior will remove protection against this vulnerability and is not recommended.
To set the feature flag ensure that the NVIDIA Container Toolkit config file at /etc/nvidia-container-runtime/config.toml includes:
[features]
allow-cuda-compat-libs-from-container = true
In the case of the NVIDIA GPU Operator the feature flag can be set by including the following in the NVIDIA GPU Operator helm install command:
Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include /usr/local/cuda/compat
This may cause portability issues for some containers when running across multiple driver versions – especially when these are more recent than the compatibility libraries in the container.
Acknowledgements
NVIDIA thanks Andres Riancho, Ronen Shustin, and Shir Tamari from Wiz Research; Dre Cura of Trend Micro Research; and Lei Wang for each separately reporting this vulnerability.
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Revision History
| Revision | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 11 February 2025 | Initial release |
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