CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-59697

7.2 HIGH Published 2025-12-02 Modified 2026-08-26 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-12-02
Last modified
2026-08-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-269, CWE-284

Description

Entrust nShield Connect XC, nShield 5c, and nShield HSMi through 13.6.11, or 13.7 (patched in 13.6.12 (LTS) and 13.9.0 (STS)), allow a physically proximate attacker to escalate privileges by editing the Legacy GRUB bootloader configuration to start a root shell upon boot of the host OS. This is called F06.

Affected configurations

• entrust nshield 5c firmware (< 13.6.12) • entrust nshield 5c firmware (>= 13.7 < 13.9.0) • entrust nshield hsmi firmware (< 13.6.12) • entrust nshield hsmi firmware (>= 13.7 < 13.9.0) • entrust nshield connect xc base firmware (< 13.6.12) • entrust nshield connect xc base firmware (>= 13.7 < 13.9.0) • entrust nshield connect xc mid firmware (< 13.6.12) • entrust nshield connect xc mid firmware (>= 13.7 < 13.9.0) • entrust nshield connect xc high firmware (< 13.6.12) • entrust nshield connect xc high firmware (>= 13.7 < 13.9.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References