CVE-2025-59693

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Dec 2, 2025
Updated: Aug 26, 2026
Reserved: Sep 18, 2025

Description

The Chassis Management Board in 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)), allows a physically proximate attacker to obtain debug access and escalate privileges by bypassing the tamper label and opening the chassis without leaving evidence, and accessing the JTAG connector. This is called F02.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.entrust.com/use-case/why-use-an-hsm
https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-6q4x-m86j-gfwj
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3px-xpp5-mpfc
https://www.entrust.com/knowledgebase/hardware/understanding-nshield-security-advisory-september-2025

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