CRITICAL 9.0 Microsoft PoC
CVE-2025-23266
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.
Microsoft Security Update 2025-Jul: 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.
Affected Products
- azl3 nvidia-container-toolkit 1.15.0-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 nvidia-container-toolkit 1.11.0-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-23266
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23266
This critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.0 was published on 2025-07-08 via Microsoft. 🚨 A public proof-of-concept exploit is available on GitHub. Affected: azl3 nvidia-container-toolkit 1.15.0-1 on Azure Linux 3.0, cbl2 nvidia-container-toolkit 1.11.0-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
Risk Timeline
CVE Disclosed2025-07-08 · 437 days ago
Public PoC Exploit AvailableWeaponised proof-of-concept code is publicly accessible
Remediation Resources
Official Advisory
msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-23266NVD / MITRE
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