🛡️ CVE-2025-23266 — gpu-operator

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Adjacent network — the attacker has to sit on the same local or logical network.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-23266 is classified as CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path. The product resolves a library or executable using a search path an attacker can influence.

Affected software

CVE-2025-23266 is recorded against 5 packages.

• github.com/nvidia/gpu-operator
• github.com/nvidia/k8s-device-plugin
• github.com/nvidia/mig-parted
• github.com/nvidia/nvidia-container-toolkit
• unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 23 October 2025 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
kidbomb.github.io (Web)
kidbomb.github.io (Web)
news.ycombinator.com (Web)
nvidia.custhelp.com (Web)
www.wiz.io (Web)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/nvidia/gpu-operator has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2025-23267 (8.0 High, published 23 Oct 2025)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path) in other software:

• CVE-2026-41447 (7.8 High, published 3 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-47211 (8.0 High, published 3 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-18605 (7.0 High, published 3 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-48395 (8.6 High, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-48391 (8.2 High, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-11400 (8.0 High, published 17 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-63093 (8.8 High, published 17 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-48287 (7.4 High, published 14 Jul 2026)

Details

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