CVE-2025-59697

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Dec 2, 2025
Updated: Aug 26, 2026
Reserved: Sep 18, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-284 Improper Access Control
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://www.entrust.com/knowledgebase/hardware/understanding-nshield-security-advisory-september-2025
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c2xm-xv33-q796

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