CVE-2025-59697 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Entrust nShield Connect XC, nShield 5c, and nShield HSMi through 13.6.11, or 13.7, 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Physical

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Entrust	Nshield 5c Nshield Connect Xc Nshield Hsmi

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-6q4x-m86j-gfwj
https://www.entrust.com/use-case/why-use-an-hsm

History

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Entrust Entrust nshield 5c Entrust nshield Connect Xc Entrust nshield Hsmi
Vendors & Products		Entrust Entrust nshield 5c Entrust nshield Connect Xc Entrust nshield Hsmi

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-269 CWE-284
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Entrust nShield Connect XC, nShield 5c, and nShield HSMi through 13.6.11, or 13.7, 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.
References		https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-6q4x-m86j-gfwj https://www.entrust.com/use-case/why-use-an-hsm

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2025-12-02T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-12-02T18:38:06.589Z

Reserved: 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-59697

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-02T18:37:33.888Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-12-02T15:15:55.277

Modified: 2025-12-02T19:15:50.590

Link: CVE-2025-59697

Redhat

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