Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in NVIDIA GPU Operator and NVIDIA Container Toolkit - CVE-2025-23359

Vulnerability identifier: #VU103896

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 7.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2025-23359

CWE-ID: CWE-367

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a time-of-check, time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted container image and execute arbitrary code on the system.

NVIDIA GPU Operator
NVIDIA Container Toolkit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Containers Module
openSUSE Leap
Fedora
golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit
nvidia-container-toolkit

Install updates from vendor's website.

NVIDIA GPU Operator - update to 24.9.2
NVIDIA Container Toolkit - update to 1.17.4
golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit - addressed in versions 1.17.4-1.fc40, 1.17.4-1.fc41, 1.17.4-1.fc42
nvidia-container-toolkit - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.17.1

• https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5616
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-087/

• Remote code execution in NVIDIA Container Toolkit and GPU Operator
• Fedora 42 update for golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit
• Fedora 41 update for golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit
• Fedora 40 update for golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit
• SUSE update for nvidia-container-toolkit