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 booting from a USB device with a valid root filesystem. This occurs because of insecure default settings in the Legacy GRUB Bootloader.
History

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-290
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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 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 booting from a USB device with a valid root filesystem. This occurs because of insecure default settings in the Legacy GRUB Bootloader.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2025-12-04T16:28:32.832Z

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

Link: CVE-2025-59699

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-04T16:27:24.787Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-12-02T15:15:55.537

Modified: 2025-12-04T17:15:54.997

Link: CVE-2025-59699

cve-icon Redhat

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