Help Center/ Cloud Container Engine/ Product Bulletin/ Vulnerability Notices/ Notice of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit Container Escape Vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-23266 and CVE-2025-23267)

Updated on 2025-07-25 GMT+08:00

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Notice of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit Container Escape Vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-23266 and CVE-2025-23267)

NVIDIA Container Toolkit is an open-source tool package from NVIDIA. It allows you to use NVIDIA GPUs to speed up computing in a containerized environment. The toolkit includes a container runtime library and utilities for automatically configuring containers to leverage NVIDIA GPUs.

Description

**Table 1** Vulnerability details
Type	CVE-ID	Severity	Discovered
Container escape	CVE-2025-23266	Critical	2025-07-17
Data tampering and denial of service	CVE-2025-23267	High	2025-07-17

Impact

In NVIDIA Container Toolkit v1.17.7 and earlier versions, an attacker can run a malicious image, which may result in container escape and enables the attacker to obtain host permissions. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may enable privilege escalation, data tampering, information leakage, and denial of service.

Identification Method

If the cluster does not have the CCE AI Suite (NVIDIA GPU) add-on installed or the add-on version is earlier than 2.0.0, these vulnerabilities are not relevant.

In earlier versions, CCE AI Suite (NVIDIA GPU) add-on are named gpu-beta or gpu-device-plugin.
If the CCE AI Suite (NVIDIA GPU) add-on version is in the range of 2.0.0 to 2.2.1 or 2.5.0 to 2.8.1, log in to the GPU node and run the following command:
```
nvidia-container-runtime --version
```
- If no such command is displayed, these vulnerabilities are not present.
- If the version of nvidia-container-runtime is earlier than 1.17.8, these vulnerabilities are present.

Solution

Do not run an untrusted container image in the cluster before the vulnerabilities are fixed.

CCE has released a new version of the CCE AI Suite (NVIDIA GPU) add-on to fix these vulnerabilities. Upgrade the add-on to the fixed version. For details, see CCE AI Suite (NVIDIA GPU) Release History.