VulnerabilityPublished 24 Mar 2026

CVE-2025-33215: NVIDIA SNAP-4 Container · Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset

Affects NVIDIA SNAP-4 ContainerSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.8 Medium · patch available : update NVIDIA SNAP-4 Container when convenient.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

6.8Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 18% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector: Adjacent
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Adjacent: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack, but the attack is limited at the protocol level to a logically adjacent topology. This can mean an attack must be launched from the same shared physical (e.g., Bluetooth or IEEE 802.11) or logical (e.g., local IP subnet) network, or from within a secure or otherwise limited administrative domain (e.g., MPLS, secure VPN to an administrative network zone).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Changed: An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 24 Mar 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
NVIDIASNAP-4 Container	Affected =All versions prior to SNAP-4.9.1 and SNAP-4.5.5	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

2) Enforce strict guest VM isolation policies to prevent compromised VMs from sending malicious crafted messages to the VIRTIO-BLK component. 3) Monitor virtualization infrastructure for unusual VM behavior or storage access anomalies that could indicate exploitation attempts. 4) Limit privileges within guest VMs to reduce the risk that an attacker can gain the necessary local privileges to exploit the vulnerability. 5) Employ network segmentation and access controls to restrict communication paths between VMs and the virtualization management plane. 6) Conduct regular security assessments and penetration testing focused on virtualization components to detect potential exploitation vectors. 7) Engage with NVIDIA support and subscribe to security advisories for timely updates and patches. These targeted steps go beyond generic advice by focusing on virtualization-specific controls and proactive monitoring.

Description

NVIDIA SNAP-4 Container contains a vulnerability in the VIRTIO-BLK component where a malicious guest VM may cause use of out-of-range pointer offset by sending crafted messages. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a denial of service of the DPA and impact the availability of storage to other VMs.

Impact

The primary impact of CVE-2025-33215 is denial of service affecting the availability of storage resources managed by the NVIDIA SNAP-4 Container's DPA. In multi-tenant environments such as cloud service providers or enterprise data centers using NVIDIA virtualization technology, a compromised or malicious guest VM can disrupt storage access for other VMs on the same host, leading to service outages or degraded performance. This can affect critical applications relying on persistent storage, causing operational disruptions and potential financial losses. Since confidentiality and integrity are not affected, data breaches or corruption are unlikely, but availability loss can still have significant business impact. The requirement for local privileges in the guest VM limits the attack surface to environments where attackers have already gained some access, but the ease of exploitation (low complexity) and scope change make it a notable risk. Organizations relying on NVIDIA SNAP-4 Containers for virtualization should consider this vulnerability a threat to service continuity and plan accordingly.

CWE-823Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset (opens in a new tab)
Base weakness
The product performs pointer arithmetic on a valid pointer, but it uses an offset that can point outside of the intended range of valid memory locations for the resulting pointer.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
XML Security (opens in a new tab)
Mass Assignment (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V13.3.1 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.3 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Pointer Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 24 Mar 2026, 20:51 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-823

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