Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in NVIDIA Container Toolkit and NVIDIA GPU Operator - CVE-2025-23359
Published: February 12, 2025 / Updated: February 20, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU103896
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-23359
CWE-ID: CWE-367
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: nVidia
Affected software:
NVIDIA Container Toolkit
NVIDIA GPU Operator
NVIDIA Container Toolkit
NVIDIA GPU Operator
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-23359
Install updates from vendor's website.