Red Hat Security Advisory: toolbox security update
A privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-23266) exists in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit used by the toolbox tool on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Toolbox enables containerized command line environments using Podman and OCI technologies. The vulnerability involves hook initialization in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit that could allow privilege escalation. Red Hat has issued a security update to address this issue in toolbox packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related builder variants. The update is rated as important by Red Hat Product Security.
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Technical Summary
CVE-2025-23266 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit component used by the toolbox utility on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Toolbox provides containerized command line environments leveraging Podman and OCI container technologies. The vulnerability involves improper hook initialization in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, which could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. Red Hat has released an updated toolbox package (version 0.2-1.el10_0) for various architectures and product variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and CodeReady Linux Builder 10 to remediate this issue. The advisory RHSA-2025:13674 provides details and instructions for applying the update.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges via the NVIDIA Container Toolkit hooks used by toolbox. This could lead to unauthorized elevated access on affected systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 or CodeReady Linux Builder 10 with the vulnerable toolbox package installed. The severity is rated as Important by Red Hat, indicating a high impact on system security if unpatched.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an official security update for toolbox that addresses CVE-2025-23266. Users should apply the updated toolbox package version 0.2-1.el10_0 or later for their respective Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 or CodeReady Linux Builder 10 systems. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying this update mitigates the privilege escalation vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by Red Hat.
Red Hat Security Advisory: toolbox security update
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-23266) exists in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit used by the toolbox tool on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Toolbox enables containerized command line environments using Podman and OCI technologies. The vulnerability involves hook initialization in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit that could allow privilege escalation. Red Hat has issued a security update to address this issue in toolbox packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related builder variants. The update is rated as important by Red Hat Product Security.
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Technical Analysis
CVE-2025-23266 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit component used by the toolbox utility on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Toolbox provides containerized command line environments leveraging Podman and OCI container technologies. The vulnerability involves improper hook initialization in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, which could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. Red Hat has released an updated toolbox package (version 0.2-1.el10_0) for various architectures and product variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and CodeReady Linux Builder 10 to remediate this issue. The advisory RHSA-2025:13674 provides details and instructions for applying the update.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges via the NVIDIA Container Toolkit hooks used by toolbox. This could lead to unauthorized elevated access on affected systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 or CodeReady Linux Builder 10 with the vulnerable toolbox package installed. The severity is rated as Important by Red Hat, indicating a high impact on system security if unpatched.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an official security update for toolbox that addresses CVE-2025-23266. Users should apply the updated toolbox package version 0.2-1.el10_0 or later for their respective Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 or CodeReady Linux Builder 10 systems. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying this update mitigates the privilege escalation vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by Red Hat.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:13674
- Cve Count
- 1
- Additional Cves
- []
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a294f498dd33fbd853ca296
Added to database: 6/10/2026, 11:49:29 AM
Last enriched: 6/10/2026, 12:08:33 PM
Last updated: 6/10/2026, 1:22:16 PM
Views: 3
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