Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in NVIDIA Container Toolkit and NVIDIA GPU Operator - CVE-2024-0133

Vulnerability identifier: #VU97847

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-0133

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 in the default mode of operation. A remote user can use specially crafted container image to create empty files on the host file system.

NVIDIA Container Toolkit
NVIDIA GPU Operator
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 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
golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit
libnvidia-container1-debuginfo
libnvidia-container-devel
libnvidia-container-debuginfo
libnvidia-container1
libnvidia-container-debugsource
libnvidia-container-tools
libnvidia-container-tools-debuginfo
libnvidia-container-static
nvidia-container-toolkit

Install updates from vendor's website.

NVIDIA Container Toolkit - update to 1.16.2
NVIDIA GPU Operator - update to 24.6.2
golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit - addressed in versions 1.16.2-1.fc40, 1.16.2-1.fc41
libnvidia-container1-debuginfo - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.9.1
libnvidia-container-devel - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.9.1
libnvidia-container-debuginfo - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.9.1
libnvidia-container1 - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.9.1
libnvidia-container-debugsource - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.9.1
libnvidia-container-tools - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.9.1
libnvidia-container-tools-debuginfo - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.9.1
libnvidia-container-static - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.9.1
nvidia-container-toolkit - update to 1.18.0-150200.5.17.1

• https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5582

• Multiple vulnerabilities in NVIDIA Container Toolkit and GPU Operator
• Fedora 41 update for golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit
• Fedora 40 update for golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit
• SUSE update for nvidia-container-toolkit
• SUSE update for libnvidia-container