VulnerabilityPublished 24 Mar 2026

CVE-2025-33216: NVIDIA SNAP-4 Container · Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

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, 11:52 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 30 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-4.9.0 and SNAP-4.5.5	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

To mitigate this vulnerability, organizations should upgrade NVIDIA SNAP-4 Containers to versions 4.9.0 or 4.5.5 or later, where the buffer size calculation issue has been addressed. If you cannot patch yet, restrict and monitor access to virtual machines running SNAP-4 Containers to prevent unauthorized or low-privilege users from sending crafted configuration data. Implement strict network segmentation and access controls to limit the attacker's ability to reach the configuration interface. Employ runtime monitoring and anomaly detection to identify unusual configuration changes or service crashes. Regularly audit and review VM privilege assignments to minimize the number of users with sufficient rights to exploit this vulnerability. Additionally, maintain up-to-date backups and disaster recovery plans to quickly restore storage services in case of a denial of service event.

Description

NVIDIA SNAP-4 Container contains a vulnerability in the configuration interface where an attacker on a VM may cause an incorrect calculation of buffer size by sending crafted configurations. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to crash of the SNAP service, causing denial of service of the storage service to the host.

Impact

The primary impact of this vulnerability is denial of service (DoS) caused by the crash of the SNAP service, which manages storage services on the host. This can lead to disruption of storage availability for applications relying on NVIDIA SNAP-4 Containers, potentially causing downtime or degraded performance in GPU-accelerated virtualized environments. Organizations using SNAP-4 Containers in cloud infrastructure, AI/ML workloads, or high-performance computing may experience interruptions in critical storage services. Although confidentiality and integrity are not directly affected, the loss of availability can impact business continuity, service level agreements, and operational efficiency. The requirement for attacker presence on a VM limits the attack surface but does not eliminate risk in multi-tenant or shared environments. The scope change in CVSS indicates that the vulnerability can affect components beyond the initially compromised VM, potentially impacting the host system's storage services.

CWE-131Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: High
The product does not correctly calculate the size to be used when allocating a buffer.
Implementation
When allocating a buffer for the purpose of transforming, converting, or encoding an input, allocate enough memory to handle the largest possible encoding. For example, in a routine that converts "&" characters to "&" for HTML entity encoding, the output buffer needs to be at least 5 times as large as the input…
Implementation
Understand the programming language's underlying representation and how it interacts with numeric calculation (CWE-681). Pay close attention to byte size discrepancies, precision, signed/unsigned distinctions, truncation, conversion and casting between types, "not-a-number" calculations, and how the language handles…
Implementation · Input Validation
Perform input validation on any numeric input by ensuring that it is within the expected range. Enforce that the input meets both the minimum and maximum requirements for the expected range.
Attack patterns
Overflow Buffers (opens in a new tab)
Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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Description

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

WeaknessesCWE-131

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