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A previously disclosed vulnerability in NVIDIA Container Toolkit has an incomplete patch, which, if exploited, could put a wide range of AI infrastructure and sensitive data at risk.
By: Abdelrahman Esmail Read time:  ( words)
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Summary:
In September 2024, NVIDIA released several updates to address a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-0132) in its NVIDIA Container Toolkit. If exploited, this vulnerability could expose AI infrastructure, data, or sensitive information. With a CVSS v3.1 rating of 9.0, all customers were advised to update their affected software immediately.
Further research, however, uncovered that the patch was incomplete. While analyzing the patch in October 2024, we identified a related performance flaw affecting Docker on Linux. These issues could enable attackers to escape container isolation, access sensitive host resources, and cause severe operational disruptions.

Analysis of CVE-2024-0132 uncovered an issue that could lead to denial of service
A time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability persists within the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, which allows a specially crafted container to access the host file system. Default configurations remain vulnerable for versions 1.17.3 and earlier, while version 1.17.4 requires the feature allow-cuda-compat-libs-from-container to be explicitly enabled.
This vulnerability was found during the review of patches for CVE-2024-0132 and this has been disclosed under ZDI-25-087.
Table 1. While earlier versions of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit are vulnerable, version 1.17.4 needs to have a feature enabled to be exploitable.
There’s also a performance issue potentially leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability on the host machine. This issue affects Docker on Linux systems. According to the Docker security team:
The Docker API as a privileged interface. Consequently, any user with API access effectively holds root-level privileges on the host. It remains unclear whether this issue originates from Docker’s runtime or the Linux’s kernel handling of mount entries.
How the exploitation works for the DoS-binding issue
The same performance issue has also been reported independently by moby and NVIDIA:
An example of the potential exploitation of CVE-2025-23359
The following steps outline how a potential attack could unfold:
Security best practices for mitigating the vulnerability
To effectively mitigate vulnerabilities related to NVIDIA Container Toolkit (CVE-2024-0132 and associated Docker file system binding issue), we recommend the following best practices:
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Trend Micro has also added a Time-Critical Vulnerability alert in the Trend Vision One Executive Dashboard that will be continually updated with additional information related to prevention and detection as it becomes available.
Rapid patching remains the most effective mitigation, but it might not always be feasible especially in complex or critical production environments. Trend Vision One™ Cloud Workload Security provides essential visibility and detection capabilities, such as detecting host file system binding to containers and running malicious containers escaping to the host file system.
Additionally, Trend Vision One™ Container Security proactively identifies vulnerabilities, malware, and compliance violations within container images. Detection capabilities for CVE-2024-0132 and the newly identified vulnerability from its failed patch are already available and integrates directly into Trend Vision One™ Cyber Risk Exposure Management.
As the attacker can create a malicious image with the exploit, Trend’s solutions can help detect this vulnerability on the pipeline before the image is pushed to production. This way, if the vulnerability is detected, Container Security (admission control policy enforcement) can block the container image from being deployed into the production environment. We also detect this vulnerability at runtime, ensuring customers have full visibility of this security issue across the entire environment.
Abdelrahman Esmail
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