CVE-2025-59697 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Entrust nShield Connect XC, nShield 5c, and nShield HSMi devices up to versions 13.6.11 or 13.7. A physically proximate attacker can exploit this by modifying the Legacy GRUB bootloader to gain a root shell upon system boot. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), indicating a critical impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, requiring physical access and high privileges to exploit. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 13.6.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_5c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 13.7, < 13.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_5c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 13.6.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_hsmi_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 13.7, < 13.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_hsmi_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 13.6.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_connect_xc_base_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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