China summons Nvidia over alleged security backdoors in AI chips shipped to the Chinese market.

China summons Nvidia over alleged security backdoors in AI chips shipped to the Chinese market.

Nvidia has found itself at the center of escalating technological tensions between the United States and China. Chinese authorities formally summoned Nvidia executives to address concerns about potential "backdoor" security vulnerabilities in the company’s H20 artificial intelligence chips, specifically developed for the Chinese market. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced it had interviewed Nvidia officials, demanding explanations and supporting evidence related to these suspected vulnerabilities.
Critical vulnerability in NVIDIA Container Toolkit, widely used in AI environments, presents significant security risk to cloud infrastructures.

Critical vulnerability in NVIDIA Container Toolkit, widely used in AI environments, presents significant security risk to cloud infrastructures.

A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, widely used in AI and high-performance computing environments, presents a significant security risk to cloud infrastructures running GPU-accelerated workloads. Tracked as CVE-2025-23266, the vulnerability enables privilege escalation from within containers, allowing attackers to gain root-level access to the host system. With a CVSS score of 9.0 (Critical), the flaw affects a substantial portion of GPU-enabled cloud environments, including those offering multi-tenant AI services.