Severe Flaw in NVIDIA Container Toolkit Enables Privilege Escalation in AI Cloud Services
On July 18, 2025, cybersecurity experts revealed a critical vulnerability in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit that threatens AI cloud services. Identified as CVE-2025-23266, this flaw has a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0 and has been dubbed “NVIDIAScape” by Wiz, a cloud security firm owned by Google. According to NVIDIA’s advisory, the vulnerability arises from issues in the initialization hooks of the container, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code with elevated permissions. Successful exploitation could lead to privilege escalation, data tampering, information leakage, and denial-of-service attacks. This vulnerability affects all versions of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit up to 1.17.7 and the NVIDIA GPU Operator up to 25.3.0, with patches included in versions 1.17.8 and 25.3.1.
Critical Vulnerability Discovered in NVIDIA Container Toolkit: A Major Threat to AI Cloud Services July 18, 2025 Cloud Security / AI Security Recent analysis by cybersecurity experts has uncovered a serious vulnerability within the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, a critical component for AI cloud services, that could allow for significant privilege…
Severe Flaw in NVIDIA Container Toolkit Enables Privilege Escalation in AI Cloud Services
On July 18, 2025, cybersecurity experts revealed a critical vulnerability in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit that threatens AI cloud services. Identified as CVE-2025-23266, this flaw has a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0 and has been dubbed “NVIDIAScape” by Wiz, a cloud security firm owned by Google. According to NVIDIA’s advisory, the vulnerability arises from issues in the initialization hooks of the container, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code with elevated permissions. Successful exploitation could lead to privilege escalation, data tampering, information leakage, and denial-of-service attacks. This vulnerability affects all versions of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit up to 1.17.7 and the NVIDIA GPU Operator up to 25.3.0, with patches included in versions 1.17.8 and 25.3.1.