AI Infrastructure at Risk: NVIDIA Fixes Critical 9.0 RCE Flaw in Apex Library (CVE-2025-33244)

NVIDIA has issued a security advisory for a critical deserialization vulnerability in Apex for Linux (CVE-2025-33244, CVSS 9.0) that can enable unauthorized code execution, privilege escalation, data disclosure/tampering, and denial-of-service; users are advised to update Apex to include commit db8e053 or later and ensure their environments use PyTorch 2.6 or newer.