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🛡️ CVE-2025-23267 — gpu-operator

🟠 CVSS 8.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-59 NVD
8.5
CVSS Score
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Description

NVIDIA Container Toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the update-ldcache hook in github.com/NVIDIA/gpu-operator

NVIDIA Container Toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the update-ldcache hook in github.com/NVIDIA/gpu-operator.

NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions.

(If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.)

The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/NVIDIA/gpu-operator before v25.3.2.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the 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 none, integrity low, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • 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: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-23267 is classified as CWE-59: Link Following. The software follows symbolic or hard links without verifying their target, so a planted link can redirect an operation to a sensitive file.

Affected software

CVE-2025-23267 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 3 March 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)
nvidia.custhelp.com (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:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-59: Link Following) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
CWE CWE-59
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-10-23
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/nvidia/gpu-operator — —
github.com/nvidia/k8s-device-plugin — —
github.com/nvidia/mig-parted — —
github.com/nvidia/nvidia-container-toolkit — —
unknown — —

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