Link following in NVIDIA Container Toolkit and NVIDIA GPU Operator - CVE-2025-23267

Vulnerability identifier: #VU113764

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2025-23267

CWE-ID: CWE-59

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an insecure link following issue in the update-ldcache hook. A remote attacker can trick the victim into loading a specially crafted container image and perform data tampering or denial of service. 

NVIDIA Container Toolkit
NVIDIA GPU Operator
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 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
toolbox
nvidia-container-toolkit

Install updates from vendor's website.

NVIDIA Container Toolkit - update to 1.17.8
NVIDIA GPU Operator - update to 25.3.1
toolbox - addressed in versions 0.2-1.fc41, 0.2-1.fc42
nvidia-container-toolkit - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.17.1

• https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5659

• Multiple vulnerabilities in NVIDIA Container Toolkit and GPU Operator
• Fedora 42 update for toolbox
• Fedora 41 update for toolbox
• SUSE update for nvidia-container-toolkit