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.

The remote AlmaLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:13674 advisory.

    * nvidia-container-toolkit: Privilege Escalation via Hook Initialization in NVIDIA Container Toolkit     (CVE-2025-23266)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:13674 advisory.

    * nvidia-container-toolkit: Privilege Escalation via Hook Initialization in NVIDIA Container Toolkit     (CVE-2025-23266)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-ab370b9ac9 advisory.

    ### Security fixes

    * Bumped the minimum github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 version to 2.3.0 for       GHSA-fv92-fjc5-jj9h or GO-2025-3787
    * Bumped the minimum github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit version to       1.17.8 for CVE-2025-23266 and CVE-2025-23267

    ### Bug fixes

    * Improved error handling when creating symbolic links inside the container       to initialize it
    * Preserved environment variables set by a KDE session and Konsole
    * Unbroke access to CA certificates in `sshd(8)` sessions (regression in 0.1.2)
    * Unbroke overriding the `HOME` variable (regression in 0.0.90)

    ### Dependencies

    * Bumped the minimum Go version to 1.22

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:13673 advisory.

    * nvidia-container-toolkit: Privilege Escalation via Hook Initialization in NVIDIA Container Toolkit     (CVE-2025-23266)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:13674 advisory.

    Toolbox is a tool for Linux operating systems, which allows the use of containerized command line     environments. It is built on top of Podman and other standard container technologies from OCI.

    Security Fix(es):

    * nvidia-container-toolkit: Privilege Escalation via Hook Initialization in NVIDIA Container Toolkit     (CVE-2025-23266)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:13673 advisory.

    Toolbox is a tool for Linux operating systems, which allows the use of containerized command line     environments. It is built on top of Podman and other standard container technologies from OCI.

    Security Fix(es):

    * nvidia-container-toolkit: Privilege Escalation via Hook Initialization in NVIDIA Container Toolkit     (CVE-2025-23266)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-e41c694c83 advisory.

    ### Security fixes

    * Bumped the minimum github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 version to 2.3.0 for       GHSA-fv92-fjc5-jj9h or GO-2025-3787
    * Bumped the minimum github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit version to       1.17.8 for CVE-2025-23266 and CVE-2025-23267

    ### Bug fixes

    * Improved error handling when creating symbolic links inside the container       to initialize it
    * Preserved environment variables set by a KDE session and Konsole
    * Unbroke access to CA certificates in `sshd(8)` sessions (regression in 0.1.2)
    * Unbroke overriding the `HOME` variable (regression in 0.0.90)

    ### Dependencies

    * Bumped the minimum Go version to 1.22

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023NVIDIA-2025-126 advisory.

    Placeholder CVE. Details forthcoming (CVE-2025-23266)

    Placeholder CVE. Details forthcoming (CVE-2025-23267)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023NVIDIA-2025-125 advisory.

    Placeholder CVE. Details forthcoming (CVE-2025-23266)

    Placeholder CVE. Details forthcoming (CVE-2025-23267)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of NVIDIA Container Toolkit installed on the remote host is prior to 1.17.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the July 2025 advisory:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2025-23266)

  - NVIDIA Container Toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the update-ldcache hook, where an attacker     could cause a link following by using a specially crafted container image. A successful exploit of this     vulnerability might lead to data tampering and denial of service. (CVE-2025-23267)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
269842	AlmaLinux 10 : toolbox (ALSA-2025:13674)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	critical
269742	RockyLinux 10 : toolbox (RLSA-2025:13674)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	critical
253682	Fedora 41 : toolbox (2025-ab370b9ac9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
249254	AlmaLinux 9 : toolbox (ALSA-2025:13673)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	critical
249145	RHEL 10 : toolbox (RHSA-2025:13674)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
249143	RHEL 9 : toolbox (RHSA-2025:13673)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
248470	Fedora 42 : toolbox (2025-e41c694c83)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
242276	Amazon Linux 2023 : libnvidia, libnvidia-container, libnvidia-container1 (ALAS2023NVIDIA-2025-126)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
242275	Amazon Linux 2023 : nvidia-container, nvidia-container-toolkit (ALAS2023NVIDIA-2025-125)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
242246	NVIDIA Container Toolkit < 1.17.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities (July 2025)	Nessus	Misc.	critical

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