CVSS 3.1
7.2 highCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2025-59697
High (7.2) in entrust. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-269, CWE-284
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- entrust:nshield_5c_firmware
- entrust:nshield_connect_xc_base_firmware
- entrust:nshield_connect_xc_high_firmware
- entrust:nshield_connect_xc_mid_firmware
- entrust:nshield_hsmi_firmware
References
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c2xm-xv33-q796
- 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://www.entrust.com/use-case/why-use-an-hsm
- https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-6q4x-m86j-gfwj