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 Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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
243842	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-23266	Nessus	Misc.	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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